Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Hmm. So I'm confused -- I thought you said in #9 that "There should
> be just 2 physical sockets on the mainboard". So PLPA is now
> reporting 2 sockets, numbered correctly.
>
> I do have PLPA intentionally skipping reporting sockets that have no
> cores on them. Are you saying that plpa-info should report sockets
> with no cores? I chose not to do that because how would you know
> what they are? Linux only reports the sockets that are in use -- how
> would you know what sockets are not in use? For example, what if you
> populate a motherboard with 4 sockets in sockets 0 and 1 -- how would
> PLPA know that sockets 2 and 3 exist?
I support this opinion.
Bert
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