ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > just FYI, making BARS live above the 32-bit limit will break every single > linux cluster here at LANL, and will also disable Plan 9.
Only for the hardware where the BARs move. > With BARS under the 32-bit limit, you can boot anything. With BARS above > that limit, you immediately limit what you can boot. Yes. And largely I see that as a good thing. > I think what really ought to happen is we fix linux early boot to do what > we wanted in the beginning of this project 5 years ago: linux should do > BAR optimization for the kernel that is running. There are enough other bits you need to twiddle I don't think you can implement that generically. > In principle, I like your BAR fix, but setting up BARS that are optimized > for 64-bit kernels should be a (normally disabled) option. For old clusters I agree that it should be normally disabled. > I wonder if we can put BAR reallocation into a payload? The amount of code should be just a handful of lines so I don't think that will be necessary. Especially since I have to go through a very limited number of bridge BARs. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
