From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263113AbVGNTFt (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:05:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261654AbVGNTFi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:05:38 -0400 Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54]:55716 "EHLO mailwasher-b.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263113AbVGNTEd (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:04:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:04:26 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Andi Kleen cc: Li-Ta Lo , yhlu , Stefan Reinauer , discuss@x86-64.org, LinuxBIOS , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [LinuxBIOS] NUMA support for dual core Opteron In-Reply-To: <20050714184821.GJ23619@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <2ea3fae10507141058c476927@mail.gmail.com> <1121365786.3317.6.camel@logarithm.lanl.gov> <20050714184821.GJ23619@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > However you'll likely need ACPI for other reasons anyways, e.g. for > better power saving. bummer. What the BIOS vendors are doing (to lock in proprietary BIOS, some say) is making ACPI tables copyright the BIOS vendor, not the motherboard vendor. So LinuxBIOS will have to reverse engineer their own, somehow. Shame we can't free ourselves of ACIP a bit. Oh well. ron