Re: [PATCH][2.4] generic support for systems with more than 8 CPUs

[Martin J. Bligh]

> IIRC NUMA-Q can be dynamically detected at boot by means of an MP OEM
> table's presence, in particular if there's a matching string in the 8B
> OEM record in the OEM table, with a value of "IBM NUMA" IIRC. This is
> probably a line or two's worth of change to mpparse.c and declaring a
> variable for clustered_apic_mode. If it were difficult to detect, I
> wouldn't have suggested implementing it (though do so at your leisure). =)
>
> I still think this is 2.5 material + backport once it gets testing there.

I think there are still some things around that are switched on #defines
for NUMA-Q. Also older machines will probably say Sequent instead of IBM
in the OEM table. Would need some testing ...

M.