Michael Bringmann <m...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > powerpc/hotplug: On systems like PowerPC which allow 'hot-add' of CPU > or memory resources, it may occur that the new resources are to be > inserted into nodes that were not used for these resources at bootup. > In the kernel, any node that is used must be defined and initialized > at boot. In order to meet both needs, this patch adds a new kernel > command line option (numnodes=<int>) for use by the PowerPC architecture-
Sorry, that's a hack. I thought you were going to use firmware properties to find the set of possible nodes. Did that not work? cheers
