[PATCH v5 2/4] Documentation: arm64/arm: dt bindings for numa.

Ganapatrao Kulkarni gpkulkarni at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 10:11:28 PDT 2015


Hi Ben,

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:07 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 09:02 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>
>> So just keep the ibm? I'm okay with that. That would help move to
>> common code. Alternatively, we could drop the vendor prefix and have
>> common code just check for both.
>
> That wouldn't be the first time we go down that path and it makes sense
> imho.
>
>> All points that could be asked of the IBM binding. Perhaps Arnd or
>> Ben can provide some insight or know who can?
>
> They are part of the PAPR specification which we've been trying to get
> published for a while now but that hasn't happened yet. Beware that
> there are variants of the format based on some other property. There's
> also
> "ibm,associativity-reference-points" which is used to calculate
> distances. I'll see if I can get you an excerpt of the PAPR chapter, or
> reword it, in the next few days (please poke me if I drop the ball next
> week).
did you get a chance to write an excerpt of the PAPR chapter?
please share the details.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
thanks
Ganapat



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