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

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 21:36 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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... 

Kexec grabs the properties from /proc/device-tree, so this will still
work for kexec. And I told Arnd to do it later 'cause it'd be easier :D

cheers

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