> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0700, john stultz wrote:
>>> I'd agree (long term even more strongly), although along with that I'd
>>> like to be able to pick and choose my subarch. So I can have a kernel
>>> that supports say, PC and BigSMP, but not NUMAQ or whatever. I believe
>>> this is doable with your infrastructure, but I'm not sure how much work
>>> it will take.
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 09:00:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> NUMAQ is not supported by the generic subarchitecture anyways.
>> The only supported architecturs by generic are pc, bigsmp, summit.
>> In theory you could subselect them, but it's only a few bytes for each
>> so it's probably not worth the effort. Technically it isn't a big issue,
>> you would just need to add it to Kconfig (not sure how to do that cleanly),
>> the Makefile and the probe table.
>
> Okay, will fix.
Will fix what? Nothing seems to be broken ...
If you mean putting NUMA-Q under generic subarch, please don't.
If you mean "selectable sub-bits of generic subarch" that seems utterly
pointless to me, the whole point of this is to get a single kernel
image for distros for all machines ...
M.
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