On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> 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... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
