Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264177AbTEOTHN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 15:07:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264178AbTEOTHN (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 15:07:13 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:42448 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264177AbTEOTHF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 15:07:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:19:19 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andi Kleen Cc: john stultz , lkml , Andrew Morton , "Martin J. Bligh" , keith maanthey Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.69_subarch-fix_A0.patch Message-ID: <20030515191919.GR8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andi Kleen , john stultz , lkml , Andrew Morton , "Martin J. Bligh" , keith maanthey References: <1052966228.9630.69.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030515065120.GA3469@Wotan.suse.de> <1053019259.9630.91.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030515172855.GA10831@Wotan.suse.de> <1053020763.9629.104.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> <20030515190006.GA30173@Wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030515190006.GA30173@Wotan.suse.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 24 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. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/