Re: [PATCH] x86: use CONFIG_X86_SMP instead of CONFIG_SMP

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 17:28:20 EST



* James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From 6e5fbb4691fd68f5b03608c5d8d96e4f189e623a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:11:48 -0500
> Subject: [VOYAGER] x86: use CONFIG_X86_SMP instead of CONFIG_SMP
>
> CONFIG_SMP is used for features which work on *all* x86 boxes.
> CONFIG_X86_SMP is used for standard PC like x86 boxes (for things
> like multi core and apics)

i've applied your fix to tip/x86/urgent, as it's obviously correct in
the current scheme of things, thanks!

but that needless build-time distinction should go away. We can now
support a whole host of 'weird' SMP boxes via genapic and x86_quirks.

Ingo
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