From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:45:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:44:51 -0500 Received: from Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De ([141.30.225.3]:11792 "EHLO Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:44:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3A775FEB.D7614D98@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:44:27 +0100 From: "Udo A. Steinberg" Organization: Dept. Of Computer Science, Dresden University Of Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit In-Reply-To: <200101310008.f0V08Wv23250@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christopher Neufeld wrote: > The only patch > which has to be applied to make Linux run stably on these systems is to > increase that limit. Would it be possible to bump it up to 128, or even > 256, in later 2.4.* kernel releases? That would allow this customer to > work with an unpatched kernel, at the cost of an additional 3.5 kB of > variables in the kernel. I guess the cleanest solution would be to allow variable setting of the maximum number of PCI busses in the config file, similar to the CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT setting, so that "exotic" users with 32+ PCI busses can boost the standard value according to their needs, without having to increase kernel size for the normal users. Regards, Udo. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/