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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:41:55 +0000
Subject: Re: 2.5.72 for ia64 released
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>>>>> 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.

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

	--david