09/09/2021 10:01, Bruce Richardson: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 07:20:27AM +0000, Juraj Linkeš wrote: > > Piotr says lscpu isn't available on ppc FreeBSD. I think this leaves us > > with two options: > > 1. either use sysctl with the risk that it may not return an accurate value > > 2. not support PPC for numa detection > > > > What do you think? > > I think point #2 is more not supporting FreeBSD on PPC for numa detection > rather than not supporting PPC generally, right? Personally, I am just in > favour of #1 for the sake of moving forward and giving us best support with > simplest code. If or when someone does hit this (FreeBSD+PPC) as a problem, > then we can work with them to find best solution for fixing it. Right now > we don't have anyone with the PPC+FreeBSD setup, so I'd rather ignore it > than implement more complicated solutions that we can't test "just in > case".
+1, FreeBSD + PPC is not worth the complication
