Re: [PATCH] allow x86 NUMA architecture detection to fail

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 21:37:30 EST




--William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 18:22:00 -0700):

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:14:48PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> BTW, this doesn't address NUMA-Q. I think I have posession of more than
>> 50% of the NUMA-Q's running Linux on the planet, and I'm too lazy to fix
>> it for just myself.
>
> I think we can let this slide until we can run with unpatched firmware
> and by some catastrophe an external person running Linux on one
> materializes, of which the latter is rather extremely unlikely.

Yeah, NUMA-Q doesn't matter for this - it's a static compile time option.
We need Summit dynamically to get one core kernel for the distros.

M.

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