From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932120AbWGGKYz (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:24:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932121AbWGGKYz (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:24:55 -0400 Received: from liaag1ac.mx.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.29]:39886 "EHLO liaag1ac.mx.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932120AbWGGKYy (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:24:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:21:16 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [patch] i386: require ACPI for NUMA with generic architecture To: "Keith Mannthey" Cc: "Randy Dunlap" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel Message-ID: <200607070623_MC3-1-C45A-2428@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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