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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:00:01 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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cc: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org>, LinuxBIOS <linuxbios@openbios.org>,
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Subject: Re: NUMA support for dual core Opteron
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if there is any chance of getting along without ACPI entries that is best.  
Linux did do this once already, for SMP K8: K8 can boot and run NUMA
without an SRAT table. What more is needed for dual core, and could Linux
support in this area be extended?

ron