From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lenb@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SNB PCI root information
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:30:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOPLpQeJTfB2UNy3O9FgRCyZb=LyMqd0SOsz7qDM0Ur_sfeNhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo57H_ZD_-Z8z9vD3c50My4Rejtc9gXXrxGxDtQomYmrSA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
> If ACPI provides a perfectly usable generic way to describe this
> topology and the vendor BIOS doesn't bother to use it, I'm not very
> interested in trying to compensate for that BIOS deficiency by adding
> a bunch of non-portable CPU-specific gunk to Linux.
The problem is that all machines get this wrong. I've tested varies
models from Dell and HP and none of them have the _PXM entry and the
local_cpus fields are wrong. If there is a reasonably sane way to
compensate for broken BIOSes it should be considered. We all know how
good BIOS authors are...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-16 1:57 SNB PCI root information Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-16 3:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-16 8:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-16 19:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-16 21:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-18 22:30 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2012-06-18 23:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-19 12:36 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-19 18:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-20 17:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-20 17:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-20 17:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-20 18:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-20 18:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-20 19:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-20 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-20 20:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-20 20:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-06-20 21:21 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-20 23:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-21 2:37 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-21 3:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-21 12:17 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-21 16:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-21 18:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-25 17:54 ` Ulrich Drepper
2012-06-20 19:57 ` Brice Goglin
2012-06-21 2:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-21 5:56 ` Brice Goglin
2012-06-21 19:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-22 7:14 ` Brice Goglin
2012-06-22 17:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-22 20:38 ` Brice Goglin
2012-06-22 20:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-06-25 9:07 ` Brice Goglin
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