From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: require ACPI for NUMA with generic architecture
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:21:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607070623_MC3-1-C45A-2428@compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a762e240607061143s6470ad5y310986cba4f0b0bc@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:43:37 -0700, Keith Mannthey wrote:
> On 7/6/06, Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
> > X86 Generic Architecture (X86_GENERICARCH) includes support for
> > Summit architecture. Enabling X86_GENERICARCH, SMP and HIGHMEM64G
> > allows NUMA to be selected but that configuration will not build
> > because it requires ACPI for the Summit NUMA support.
>
> Good catch. With X86_GENRICARCARCH perhaps NUMA should always be on
> or am I missing something with how it is supposed to work? Shouldn't
> X86_GENRICARCARCH buy you the ablility to boot(correctly) on all the
> diffrent archs listed?
AFAIK not all Summit machines are NUMA, so maybe the flexibility is
needed. e.g. some might want GENERICARCH without HIGHMEM64G.
--
Chuck
"You can't read a newspaper if you can't read." --George W. Bush
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2006-07-07 10:21 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2006-07-07 18:16 ` Keith Mannthey
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2006-07-06 16:20 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-06 18:43 ` Keith Mannthey
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