Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

"William" == William Lee Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
William> If you don't know, then just hit "enter".

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:35:38PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> Sure, I understand that, but what I'm really complaining about is the
> text of the prompt.  When I do a 'make menuconfig' it's alot cleaner
> and more understandable what's happening here.
> Part of the problem is the specification in arch/i386/Kconfig, which I
> think needs to be re-worked.  
> In my case, I specified that the max number of CPUS is 2, since I only
> have a dual CPU box.  So it's not a BIGCPU box.  Not sure how to make
> this change... I'll have to find some time and play with this.

CONFIG_NR_CPUS should appear under the processor type and features menu.
I fixed sparse physical APIC ID wakeup, so setting it to 2 should be
fine now. If the configurator is hiding it from you, please contact
Roman Zippel, and in the meantime vi .config and search for NR_CPUS and
set that to the desired value. AFAIK the option is visible, but I've
not got unusual configs.


"William" == William Lee Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
William> Yes, they're mutually exclusive. You can't build one that
William> will run on all those machines because the programming isn't
William> done right for that.  But the generic architecture option
William> will run on at least 3.

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:35:38PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> I see that when I dod the menuconfig, it's not clear at all when
> running oldconfig.

make oldconfig is not meant for those in need of explanations. It's
barely meant to be interactive if at all. menuconfig might be a better
configuration method for you.


-- wli