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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: HT apparently not detected properly on 2.4.23
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:12:14PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> I think I will just remove CONFIG_NR_CPUS instead... it seems to bring 
> more trouble than advantages. 

I've gotten a success report from this patch (forwarded separately),
but that's okay.

To handle sparse physical APIC ID's within 2.4 limitations without
this patch, NR_CPUS == BITS_PER_LONG whenever CONFIG_SMP=y is an
effective requirement.


-- wli