Re: Exporting physical topology information

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>]

On Friday, March 19, 2004 10:53 am, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Here's the (very platform specific) patch I did for Altix, just to see
> what it would look like, and to solicit comments.  There's some other
> per-node stuff that would be nice to have available to userspace too,
> mostly for administrative purposes, like the chipset revision and
> type, firmware revision, and other hardware specific details.  One way
> to export that sort of thing is with some sort of arbitrary data blob,
> but like you said, that violates the sysfs one file, one value
> principle.

Greg, any comments on this?  (Sorry I was gone for much of last month and lost 
track of this thread.)  Maybe a whole subdirectory containing physical tag, 
version files and such would make more sense?

Jesse