Hello Serge, On 22/05/17 15:03, Serge Semin wrote: >> I have an SGI Onyx2 and just recently acquired a working SGI Origin 200. The >> Onyx2 has NUMA issues yet to be hunted down, but I got ~3 days uptime out of >> the Origin 200 running compiles before powering it down. Mainline needs 2-3 >> small patches to make IP27 workable, last I tested. >> >> I'd have to look at the IP27 code again and see if I can make sense of what >> it's doing. I think it dealt with either setting up memory for an initrd >> (which I haven't used in over a decade), or it's for the NUMA stuff to discover >> all memory on each node. >> >> -- >> Joshua Kinard >> Gentoo/MIPS >> kumba@xxxxxxxxxx >> 6144R/F5C6C943 2015-04-27 >> 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943 >> >> "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our >> lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." >> >> --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic > It's great to hear of your willingness to help. Since both Loonson64 and SGI IP27 > problematic architecture-specific code will be appropriately altered, I'll publish > the fixed general MIPS-memblock patchset within two months. I'll also try to > involve Ralf in it when I'm ready, so to make sure all my alterations are made > within kernel arch-code coding style. While I'm working on it, you can still use > the current patchset for some limited tests. Please Cc me in this case, I should be able to test on Octeon MIPS64 platform. -- Best regards, Alexander Sverdlin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
