[Cbe-oss-dev] [HACK] cell: fake NUMA properties

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 12 21:36:07 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:37 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is a hack to make it possible to test NUMA behaviour on Cell Blades
> without the proper device tree data. We simply try to add all required
> properties to the tree if they are not already there.
> 
> This patch is highly nonportably and generally just a bad idea. Don't
> even think about using it on production systems ;-).

Please do that in prom_init instead :) Easier place to add properties
and at least this way, they'll survive accross kexec... 

Ben.





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