Hi!
There's two problems outlined in this discussion:
A) too verbose bootup that is annoying with 64 CPUs and a show-stopper
with 4096 CPUs.
B) the ad-hoc nature of our topology enumeration. Some of it is in
/sys, some of it is in printk logs. None really works well and there's no structure in it.
The simplest solution for (A) is what i suggested a few mails ago: dont print the information by default, but allow (for trouble-shooting) purposes for it to be printed when a boot option is passed.
Well, yes, it is *simplest*, but is it best? Example printing 'cpus
0-31 stepping 3, cpus 32-63 stepping 4' seem rather convincing --such
info should be there by default and not after speciial option...
Pavel