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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: jamesclv@us.ibm.com
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.1-mm2: Get irq_vector size right for generic subarch UP installer kernels
Date: 14 Jan 2004 16:49:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074116982.2054.207.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401141201.43324.jamesclv@us.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:01, James Cleverdon wrote:
> Sorry, but we've had distro installer kernels, which are uni-proc generic 
> subarch kernels, blow up with array overflows on large systems.
> 
> What would you suggest I do instead?

For Summit just add an irq_vectors.h file that includes
mach-generic/irq-vectors.h and overrides the NR_IRQ_VECTORS value

For genericarch, I'm less certain, but it seems, given the idea behind
genericarch that it should probably be set at runtime when the arch type
becomes known

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14 19:34 James Bottomley
2004-01-14 20:01 ` James Cleverdon
2004-01-14 21:49   ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-16  2:35 Nakajima, Jun
2004-01-18 19:06 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-01-14 23:13 Nakajima, Jun
2004-01-15  4:36 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-01-15 21:57   ` James Cleverdon
2004-01-15 22:40     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-01-16  5:45       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-01-15 22:42     ` Mika Penttilä
2004-01-14 21:50 Nakajima, Jun
2004-01-14 22:20 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-01-14  0:26 James Cleverdon
2004-01-14  1:00 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-01-14 19:59   ` James Cleverdon
2004-01-14 22:22     ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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