Re: [PATCH] general config option cleanup

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:47:38PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> As threatened, here's a patch that unifies the ia64 memory init and memmap 
> codepaths by unconditionalizing the CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP code and making 
> CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM required.  It also allows building with CONFIG_SMP=n 
> and/or CONFIG_NUMA=n.  The end result should be easier to understand and hack 
> on, and should make things like memory hotplug that much easier since people 
> will only have to worry about one code path instead of every combination of 
> the three options.

I don't really like this.  It penalises platforms like Intel's Tiger box
that have contiguous memory.  I'd really like to see VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP go
away and the DISCONTIGMEM code be usable for both zx1/sx1000 and sn2.

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