Bryce Harrington <> wrote: > 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? x86_64 uses ACPI to do memory hotplug on real platforms that support it. I actually included the probe file for x86_64 way-back-when for convenience, so you'll find it there. Of the x86 platforms that I know that also support memory hot-plug, they also use ACPI - however, these systems are x86-64 as well, so usually they aren't running 32-bit, but 64-bit. x86 doesn't include probe file, but you could easily add it as someone else (Kame-san?) pointed out. Good luck... matt
