Linus, I believe Alan cleared up the only objection to this small patch. Please apply. Changelog: Cleans up a bit of a hack to get compressed (gziped) kernels booting on NUMA-Q. Resulting code is more readable and understandable. Cheers! -Matt Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 22:44, Matthew Dobson wrote: > >>>STANDALONE seems to be a very namespace-polluting choice of define. >>>MULTIQUAD_STANDALONE, MQ_STANDALONE... anything would be better imo. >> >>The #define is most definitely *not* NUMA/Multiquad specific. In this >>particular instance, it is guarding Multiquad specific code... The >>STANDALONE option (please clarify if I'm wrong, Alan) is for code that >>is compiled along with the kernel, with the kernel headers, etc, but is >>not acually part of the kernel proper. > > > Indeed > > Its set by the boot loader code that wants to also use inb/outb etc but > not get the kernel magic wonders of numa-q and other evil abuses of PC > iomapping