Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.69_subarch-fix_A0.patch

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 10:28, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > You did get around it in the generic subarch (which I love, by the way,
> > > thanks so much for doing that work), but in a roundabout way. (via
> > > #ifdef APIC_DEFINITION trickery). 
> > 
> > The best fix is probably to just remove the summit selection and replace
> > it with the generic architecture.
> 
> 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. 

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.


-Andi