On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:58 -0700, yhlu wrote: > Someone mentioned that NUMA support for dual core opteron need acpi > support in LinuxBIOS. > > there may be some other solution for that. > 1. PowerPC already support dual core and it should support NUMA, So > the Open Firmware must have some NUMA entry definition. > Can we make x86-64 kernel support OpenFirmware interface so we can use > OpenBIOS as payload of LinuxBIOS. > 2. enable acpi and add the NUMA entries into it, the Linux Kernel will be > happy. > 3. If we are trying to use ADLO to load Windows/Solaris/FreeBSD, We > need to pass related acpi info to ADLO.... > > Solution 1 will be ideal one, and can make Solaris for X86-64 use > OpenFirmware interface too..... > > which one is better? >
AFIAK, for x86_64 kernel, it will try to read NUMA configuration from HW directory. We don't have to export any ACPI table. -- Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Los Alamos National Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
