Re: 2.5.72 for ia64 released

Jesse Barnes
2003-06-20T18:45:19Z

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:41:55AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:35:31 -0700, jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) said:
>
> Jesse> DISCONTIGMEM, NUMA, and ACPI_NUMA have to be turned on
> Jesse> automatically for generic kernels...
>
> I thought the DISCONTIGMEM support is making assumptions about the
> physical memory layout. If this is still true, DISCONTIGMEM and
> GENERIC cannot go together.

No, the discontig patch I posted earlier should allow this. We've
tested it quite a bit in 2.4.

> I suspect it would be more preferable if you could make it possible
> for a non-NUMA kernel to boot on your machine.

That might be nice, but I'd rather have CONFIG_GENERIC turn on
CONFIG_NUMA. It shouldn't get in the way of non-NUMA machines...

Thanks,
Jesse