Re: [PATCH] 2.6.1-mm2: Get irq_vector size right for genericsubarch UP installer kernels

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 16:51:11 EST


On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:01, James Cleverdon wrote:
> Sorry, but we've had distro installer kernels, which are uni-proc generic
> subarch kernels, blow up with array overflows on large systems.
>
> What would you suggest I do instead?

For Summit just add an irq_vectors.h file that includes
mach-generic/irq-vectors.h and overrides the NR_IRQ_VECTORS value

For genericarch, I'm less certain, but it seems, given the idea behind
genericarch that it should probably be set at runtime when the arch type
becomes known

James


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