From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263860AbTIKCga (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:36:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264109AbTIKCga (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:36:30 -0400 Received: from obsidian.spiritone.com ([216.99.193.137]:38038 "EHLO obsidian.spiritone.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263860AbTIKCg3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:36:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:35:07 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: William Lee Irwin III , Dave Hansen cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Patricia Gaughen , James Cleverdon , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow x86 NUMA architecture detection to fail Message-ID: <33780000.1063247706@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20030911012200.GP4306@holomorphy.com> References: <1063242888.32125.243.camel@nighthawk> <20030911012200.GP4306@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --William Lee Irwin III wrote (on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 18:22:00 -0700): > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:14:48PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: >> BTW, this doesn't address NUMA-Q. I think I have posession of more than >> 50% of the NUMA-Q's running Linux on the planet, and I'm too lazy to fix >> it for just myself. > > I think we can let this slide until we can run with unpatched firmware > and by some catastrophe an external person running Linux on one > materializes, of which the latter is rather extremely unlikely. Yeah, NUMA-Q doesn't matter for this - it's a static compile time option. We need Summit dynamically to get one core kernel for the distros. M.