Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1: KEXEC became SMP-only

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 18:37:43 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:22:31AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>...
> Voyager SMP builds don't compile with kexec(), and it isn't clear how to
> shootdown CPUs using NMIs without an APIC.
>...
> config KEXEC
> bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL && (!X86_VOYAGER && SMP)
> + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !(X86_VOYAGER && SMP)
>...

Unless James disagrees with me, I'd prefer to let X86_VOYAGER depend on
SMP (the CONFIG_SMP=n case is anyways not compiling), and you could
express this simply as "&& !X86_VOYAGER".

cu
Adrian

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