Re: [patch] i386: require ACPI for NUMA with generic architecture

[Keith Mannthey]

On 7/6/06, Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> X86 Generic Architecture (X86_GENERICARCH) includes support for
> Summit architecture.  Enabling X86_GENERICARCH, SMP and HIGHMEM64G
> allows NUMA to be selected but that configuration will not build
> because it requires ACPI for the Summit NUMA support.
>
> Fix:
>         require ACPI for NUMA support with X86_GENERICARCH
>
>         update the menu comment noting this
>
>         set default NR_CPUS to 32 for GENERICARCH (since it
>                 includes BIGSMP and SUMMIT which default to 32)

Good catch.    With X86_GENRICARCARCH perhaps NUMA should always be on
or am I missing something with how it is supposed to work?  Shouldn't
X86_GENRICARCARCH buy you the ablility to boot(correctly) on all the
diffrent archs listed?

Thanks,
 Keith
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