linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RFC: Fix AMD Northbridge-ID contiguity assumptions

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Message-ID: <506C56B2.50505@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:16:02 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steffen Persvold <sp@...ascale.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: Fix AMD Northbridge-ID contiguity assumptions

On 10/03/2012 02:20 AM, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> The AMD Northbridge initialisation code and EDAC assume the Northbridge IDs
> are contiguous, which no longer holds on federated systems with multiple
> HyperTransport fabrics with multiple PCI domains.

Is that "on NumaScale systems"?  If so, please say so rather than trying
to make it sound generic; if it is not, can you give some other examples?

	-hpa
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