linux-kernel - Re: acpi dsts loading and populate

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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:53:04 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	trenn@...e.de
CC:	Éric Piel <Eric.Piel@...mplin-utc.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, dsdt@...gusch.at,
	len.brown@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: acpi dsts loading and populate_rootfs


> Which is probably a good idea.
> AFAIK Numa, possibly Apic tables must be available quite early.

NUMA setup does not use the DSDT, but separate special tables
(SRAT/SLIT). It also doesn't require the ACPI interpreter, these
are all simple static tables.

-Andi

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