Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] cpus, nodes, and the device model: dynamic cpuregistration

[Rusty Russell]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 03:42 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> For starters, the current situation is that cpu sysdevs are registered
> from architecture code at boot.  Already we have inconsistencies
> betweeen the arches -- ia64 registers only online cpus, ppc64
> registers all "possible" cpus.

Um, how does ia64 bring up a new CPU without
a /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online?

I have no problem with unification, though.

Rusty.
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