Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024 | From | Rohit Seth <> | Date | Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:42:25 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:59 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Vendors look for the upstream defaults and orient themselves on the > > defconfig. > > they do? That's news to me. I've worked at a vendor for almost 5 > years, > 3 1/2 years of which I was the person who decided on the configs (with > external input of course). In those 3 1/2 years I *never* looked at > defconfig. *never*. And I don't expect other vendor kernel owners to > do > things differently; when a config option needs deciding you look at > the > description and pick a good value. That's it. Defconfig doesn't > matter. >
IMO something like 128 is a good number as a default for most IA-64 machines. As Arjan said above, OSVs almost always have their own reasons and input to choose this number. And lately there is a trend of having at least two kernels, one for mostly used platforms and the other one for bigger configurations.
-rohit
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