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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)
Cc: jamesclv@us.ibm.com (James Cleverdon),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Summit patch for 2.5.34
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:15:52 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209161615.g8GGFqx10004@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020916175545.A21875@suse.de> from "Dave Jones" at Sep 16, 2002 05:55:45 PM

> - Is this the same summit code as is in 2.4-ac ?
>   (Ie, the one that boots on non summit systems too)

Yes

> - I believe the way forward here is to work with James Bottomley,
>   who has a nice abstraction of the areas your patch touches for
>   his Voyager sub-architecture.

For 2.5 maybe not for 2.4. Until Linus takes the subarch stuff the 
if if if bits will just get uglier. As well as voyager there are at least
two more pending NUMA x86 platforms other than IBM summit

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-16 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-13  3:35 [PATCH] Summit patch for 2.5.34 James Cleverdon
2002-09-16 15:55 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-16 16:15   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-09-16 16:27     ` Dave Jones
2002-09-16 19:03     ` James Cleverdon
2002-09-16 21:24   ` James Cleverdon

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