linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 08/10] dt, numa: Add NUMA dt binding implementation.

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Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:36:51 -0600
From:	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
Cc:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 08/10] dt, numa: Add NUMA dt binding implementation.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 05:13:17PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>
> 
> ADD device tree node parsing for NUMA topology using device
> "numa-node-id" property distance-map.

I still want an adequate explanation why NUMA setup cannot be done with 
an unflattened tree. PowerPC manages to do that and should have a 
similar init flow being memblock based, so I would expect arm64 can too.

Rob