ACPI support

[Eric W. Biederman]

ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:

> As it happens the real important thing (which we hope to get to) is SRAT 
> tables, so that Linux with NUMA support will work on K8. 
> 
> Yep, it really matters, as somebody from IBM explained to me recently.

On K8 with a 64bit NUMA kernel it should not matter, because
the kernel can look and see where everything is.

In the general case or with a 32bit kernel is makes sense.  I believe
the SRAT table is not an AML table so it really should not be hard
to accommodate.

Eric