On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:54:07PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 17:49 -0700, jnorman wrote: > > patched 2.6.17-rc5 with: > > 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 > > patch-2.6.17-rc5-mm1-lxc2 > > Well, first of all, lxc patches aren't for memory hotplug development ;) Ah, could you recommend what we should be using? Jake was just following the directions on http://lhms.sourceforge.net/howtouse.html which suggested those were the patches to use. > ia64 memory hotplug usually doesn't use probe files, but instead uses > ACPI. The probe files are really only for debugging anyway, unless your > firmware doesn't provide any real memory hotplug interfaces. Are there plans to make all systems use one approach or the other, or will there always be several ways to access it? (So we can account for them when designing the testsuite.) Also, we haven't started looking at x386/x86_64 yet, but will they use ACPI or probes? Thanks, Bryce
