Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:58:24 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG_X86_NUMA |
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:51:44PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > hch@lst.de said: > > I already wondered about that, but AFAIK a kernel with X86_NUMAQ set > > still boots on a PeeCee, so it's really an option, not a choice. > > It alters the mflags-y and mcore-y variables in arch/i386/Makefile, so it's > one of the subarch choices and thus should really be under the menu options.
Okay, does this patch look better?
--- 1.19/arch/i386/Kconfig Sat Dec 28 23:18:10 2002 +++ edited/arch/i386/Kconfig Sun Dec 29 23:10:14 2002 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ config VOYAGER bool "NCR Voyager Architecture" - ---help--- + help Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based. @@ -58,9 +58,19 @@ If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine, say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. +config X86_NUMAQ + bool "IBM/Sequent NUMAQ" + help + This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA + multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, + and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical. + You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send + email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com + # Visual Workstation support is utterly broken. # If you want to see it working mail an VW540 to hch@infradead.org 8) -#bool 'SGI Visual Workstation support' CONFIG_VISWS +#config VISWS +# bool "SGI Visual Workstation support" endchoice @@ -430,24 +440,8 @@ This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. -config X86_NUMA - bool "Multi-node NUMA system support" - depends on SMP - -#Platform Choices -config X86_NUMAQ - bool "Multiquad (IBM/Sequent) NUMAQ support" - depends on X86_NUMA - help - This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA - multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, - and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical. - You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send - email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com - config X86_SUMMIT bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA) support" - depends on X86_NUMA help This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. In particular, it is needed for the x440. @@ -456,7 +450,7 @@ config CLUSTERED_APIC bool - depends on X86_NUMA && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT) + depends on X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT default y # Common NUMA Features - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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