Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, LKML <linux-kernel@...>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, H. Anvin <hpa@...>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...>
that would be very welcome, esp if kerneloops.org can pick them up.
One thing we also need to do as Linux is get more conservative;
(this isn't per se about this specific thing)
With MCFG for example we learned over time "if it smells funny don't use it".
That concept should be carried much further imo; for example on K8 you
can compare the acpi table to the chipset for numa support, and if they don't match,
we SHOULD ignore both entirely.
The same is true all over; Linux tends to behave as "oh but we think we can make it work anyway",
in general imo that's a mistake in the long term, at least for default configs. Because there
will be cases where that will break, be it special bioses or next gens of chipsets.
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