On Nov 22, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: > We could also print a message in stdout: > "Using physical/OS indexes by default in the graphic mode, use -l to > revert to logical indexes" > Anybody that may confuse logical/physical indexes will have to run > hwloc-calc/bind from a terminal anyway, so printing this lstopo message > to the terminal may help a bit? Otherwise, we could send the message to > the soundcard, or by mail, or print it in the sky like the batman signal :)
I prefer duck-o-grams (i.e., where a flock of ducks show up at your door and honk out the message in morse code). > I am not against printing something directly in the graphic output. > Cropping isn't hard indeed. We could even remove it when -s (silent) is > given, but -s already switches to text mode unfortunately. Better yet -- include a legend/text explanation line (or even just a title, "Physical|Logical numbering of processors in [hostname] at [time/date]") by default in the graphical output, but provide a command line param to disable it -- even if it's a new command line option. > Anyway, FWIW, I think I am in favor of switching to physical in graphic > output by default. Me too. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
