From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:45:19 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.5.72 for ia64 released Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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