Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 10:17:43 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.69_subarch-fix_A0.patch |
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> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0700, john stultz wrote: >>> I'd agree (long term even more strongly), although along with that I'd >>> like to be able to pick and choose my subarch. So I can have a kernel >>> that supports say, PC and BigSMP, but not NUMAQ or whatever. I believe >>> this is doable with your infrastructure, but I'm not sure how much work >>> it will take. > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:00:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> NUMAQ is not supported by the generic subarchitecture anyways. >> The only supported architecturs by generic are pc, bigsmp, summit. >> In theory you could subselect them, but it's only a few bytes for each >> so it's probably not worth the effort. Technically it isn't a big issue, >> you would just need to add it to Kconfig (not sure how to do that cleanly), >> the Makefile and the probe table. > > Okay, will fix.
Will fix what? Nothing seems to be broken ...
If you mean putting NUMA-Q under generic subarch, please don't. If you mean "selectable sub-bits of generic subarch" that seems utterly pointless to me, the whole point of this is to get a single kernel image for distros for all machines ...
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