Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263869AbTE0PgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:36:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263894AbTE0PgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:36:04 -0400 Received: from ihemail1.lucent.com ([192.11.222.161]:43137 "EHLO ihemail1.firewall.lucent.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263869AbTE0PgC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 11:36:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16083.35048.737099.575241@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:48:56 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error In-Reply-To: <20030527153619.GJ8978@holomorphy.com> References: <200305271048.36495.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> <20030527130515.GH8978@holomorphy.com> <200305271729.49047.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> <20030527153619.GJ8978@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 20.6.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1557 Lines: 37 William> It should be even more obscure than that; CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is William> basically "you had _better_ have this machine and you had William> _better_ know what you're doing even if you have one". William> At any rate, one of us will look at making the option at William> least harder to accidentally turn on. I ran into this as well, since the 2.5.69-70 config entry is *really* unclear on what you need to enter there, it's not in the standard Y/N/M format for options. For example: Kernel module loader (KMOD) [Y/n/?] y * * Processor type and features * Subarchitecture Type (PC-compatible, Voyager (NCR), NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent), Summit/EXA (IBM x440), Support for other sub-arch SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs, SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation), Generic architecture (Summit, bigsmp, default)) [PC-compatible] (NEW) What the hell am I supposed to enter here? This is just friggin ugly and un-readable. It should be cleaned up. Or is it just that the help entry is appended to the question improperly here? That's sorta what it looks like peering at it with my head turned to the left all the way. Are these choices all mutually exclusive? Or can you build a kernel which will run on all these machines? Now that would be interesting for a distro to have... not. *grin* John - 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/