Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758650AbYA2EW5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:22:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754562AbYA2EWs (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:22:48 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:57219 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754275AbYA2EWr (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:22:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:56:59 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Andi Kleen , Joachim Deguara , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dean Roe Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c Message-ID: <20080129045659.GA31847@one.firstfloor.org> References: <200801281211.28214.joachim.deguara@amd.com> <200801282012.47190.yinghai.lu@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801282012.47190.yinghai.lu@sun.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 14 > also there are some users are using LinuxBIOS or other firmware that doesn't have or like ACPI support. but they still need numa. > for them ACPI doesn't help. We've had this discussion before. The right way even if you don't want to do full ACPI is to do just the minimal static boot tables and a SRAT. These are quite simple tables and should be easy to set up. SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/