Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264025AbTE0Roo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 13:44:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263997AbTE0Rnp (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 13:43:45 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:34536 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264024AbTE0RnC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 13:43:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:56:04 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: John Stoffel Cc: DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error Message-ID: <20030527175604.GN8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , John Stoffel , DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200305271048.36495.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> <20030527130515.GH8978@holomorphy.com> <200305271729.49047.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> <20030527153619.GJ8978@holomorphy.com> <16083.35048.737099.575241@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030527155259.GK8978@holomorphy.com> <16083.37850.528654.94908@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030527164300.GL8978@holomorphy.com> <16083.42349.964658.11555@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16083.42349.964658.11555@gargle.gargle.HOWL> 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: 1784 Lines: 41 "William" == William Lee Irwin writes: William> CONFIG_NR_CPUS should appear under the processor type and William> features menu. On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:50:37PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > I must not have been clear enough in my rant, so let me rephrase it. > Because I had already configured NR_CPUS=2, I'm not sure that I should > have even gotten the choice of X86_BIGSMP at all, since it's obviously > not valid in this case. > I'm really asking for the configuration specifications and > dependencies to be cleaned up, and maybe I'll try to do it myself and > send in the patch. Right now I'm going to be trying 2.5.70-mm1 with a > patch for my ISA Cyclades board first. They're meant to specify system types, in particular APIC configurations. On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:50:37PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > So the real thrust of my posts before was: > The language and description used when running 'make oldconfig' and > trying to set the "X86_GENERICARCH" option is ugly and hard to > understand and doesn't match how it's shown in the 'make menuconfig' > settings. > Sure, I realize that oldconfig is more a helper than a real > interface, but it still has warts that I'd like to fix or have > someone else fix if I can't do it myself. > Maybe the entire issue is really how do you do specify and constrain > inputs properly in this setup? No idea. Ask Roman Zippel. My expectation is that we aren't going to make kernel configuration safe for Aunt Tillie anytime in the near future. -- 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/