On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>>> More specifically, it looks like different chips have different
>>> things in
>>> /sys. Ugh. Is there a way that PLPA can at least determine
>>> whether it's on
>>> a sys that it understands?
> Unfortunatly, it looks like these infos where just added to the
> kernel sources:
>
> 2008-07-28 powerpc: Make core id information available to userspace
> [1]
> 2008-07-28 powerpc: Make core sibling information available to
> userspace [2]
>
> But the physical_package_id is still missing. Or, to be more precise:
> its set to a default value (-1):
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7849f16c13476288fe4fbd420975e8456c75aa0
Ah. So should we ignore POWER until they properly support both
core_id (which is done) and physical_package_id?
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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