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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:43:37 -0700
From: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com>
To: "Chuck Ebbert" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] i386: require ACPI for NUMA with generic architecture
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       "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>, "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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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.
>
> Fix:
>         require ACPI for NUMA support with X86_GENERICARCH
>
>         update the menu comment noting this
>
>         set default NR_CPUS to 32 for GENERICARCH (since it
>                 includes BIGSMP and SUMMIT which default to 32)

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?

Thanks,
  Keith