Bug#551259: linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64: fails to detect NUMA on Dell T7500

2009-10-29 Thread Joe Krahn
I see the same NUMA problem on updated Fedora 10 and 11 kernels, on Dell T5500 and T7500. I also see the tbutils warnings about ACPI checksum errors for TCPA and SLIC tables. If Dell claims it is a Linux problem, it would help to know if they claim that the SRAT and/or SLIT tables are actually

Bug#551259: linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64: fails to detect NUMA on Dell T7500

2009-10-20 Thread Jens-Michael Hoffmann
On Tuesday, 20. October 2009 11:10:37 Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: > On Saturday, 17. October 2009 00:09:55 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > So I think this indicates a firmware bug. It might be fixed by a later > > BIOS version; the latest is A03, available from: > > > > http://support.dell.com/support/d

Bug#551259: linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64: fails to detect NUMA on Dell T7500

2009-10-20 Thread Jens-Michael Hoffmann
On Saturday, 17. October 2009 00:09:55 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > So I think this indicates a firmware bug. It might be fixed by a later > BIOS version; the latest is A03, available from: > > http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?fileid=344390&relea > seid=R239339 Many thanks fo

Bug#551259: linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64: fails to detect NUMA on Dell T7500

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 19:38 +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64 > Version: 2.6.30-8 > Severity: normal > > The machine is a Dell Precision T7500 with 2 Nehalem CPUs. In the BIOS, memory > interleaving is set to "NUMA". It was the only BIOS option mentioning NU