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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:00:01PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > if there is any chance of getting along without ACPI entries that is best. > Linux did do this once already, for SMP K8: K8 can boot and run NUMA > without an SRAT table. What more is needed for dual core, and could Linux > support in this area be extended? The dual core NUMA parsing problem could be probably fixed. I personally have no plans to work on it though, since the ACPI method works fine. Feel free to submit patches. However with 90+W CPUs I would strongly recommend having support for PowerNow! and the old style PST table doesn't support dual core or SMP, so you need ACPI for that anyways. -Andi - 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/