Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:14:48 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: unify "numa=" command line option handling |
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>>> On 07.01.11 at 20:55, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote: > I still don't think it meets the stable kernel rules. The changelog > explicitly states that we do not want to disable ACPI completely, so the > only numa= command line option that would possibly be useful on 32-bit is > numa=off in this case. If you're compiling a 32-bit kernel for a machine > with SRAT entries that can't be parsed by the kernel, then there's still > no explanation as to why CONFIG_NUMA=n won't fix it.
In distro kernels you have no control over the configuration, yet you may want the kernel to boot on a particular machine.
Jan
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