From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG_X86_NUMA
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:58:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021229235823.A12623@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212292251.gBTMpim12460@localhost.localdomain>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:51:44PM -0600
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:51:44PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> hch@lst.de said:
> > I already wondered about that, but AFAIK a kernel with X86_NUMAQ set
> > still boots on a PeeCee, so it's really an option, not a choice.
>
> It alters the mflags-y and mcore-y variables in arch/i386/Makefile, so it's
> one of the subarch choices and thus should really be under the menu options.
Okay, does this patch look better?
--- 1.19/arch/i386/Kconfig Sat Dec 28 23:18:10 2002
+++ edited/arch/i386/Kconfig Sun Dec 29 23:10:14 2002
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
config VOYAGER
bool "NCR Voyager Architecture"
- ---help---
+ help
Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary
to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based.
@@ -58,9 +58,19 @@
If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine,
say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable.
+config X86_NUMAQ
+ bool "IBM/Sequent NUMAQ"
+ help
+ This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA
+ multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped,
+ and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical.
+ You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send
+ email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com
+
# Visual Workstation support is utterly broken.
# If you want to see it working mail an VW540 to hch@infradead.org 8)
-#bool 'SGI Visual Workstation support' CONFIG_VISWS
+#config VISWS
+# bool "SGI Visual Workstation support"
endchoice
@@ -430,24 +440,8 @@
This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds
approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image.
-config X86_NUMA
- bool "Multi-node NUMA system support"
- depends on SMP
-
-#Platform Choices
-config X86_NUMAQ
- bool "Multiquad (IBM/Sequent) NUMAQ support"
- depends on X86_NUMA
- help
- This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA
- multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped,
- and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical.
- You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send
- email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com
-
config X86_SUMMIT
bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA) support"
- depends on X86_NUMA
help
This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset.
In particular, it is needed for the x440.
@@ -456,7 +450,7 @@
config CLUSTERED_APIC
bool
- depends on X86_NUMA && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
+ depends on X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT
default y
# Common NUMA Features
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-29 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-29 22:39 [PATCH] remove CONFIG_X86_NUMA James Bottomley
2002-12-29 22:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-29 22:51 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-29 22:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-12-29 23:06 ` James Bottomley
2002-12-29 22:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-29 23:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
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2002-12-29 22:04 Christoph Hellwig
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