Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG_X86_NUMA

Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de)
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:58:24 +0100


On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:51:44PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> hch@lst.de said:
> > I already wondered about that, but AFAIK a kernel with X86_NUMAQ set
> > still boots on a PeeCee, so it's really an option, not a choice.
>
> It alters the mflags-y and mcore-y variables in arch/i386/Makefile, so it's
> one of the subarch choices and thus should really be under the menu options.

Okay, does this patch look better?

--- 1.19/arch/i386/Kconfig Sat Dec 28 23:18:10 2002
+++ edited/arch/i386/Kconfig Sun Dec 29 23:10:14 2002
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@

config VOYAGER
bool "NCR Voyager Architecture"
- ---help---
+ help
Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary
to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based.

@@ -58,9 +58,19 @@
If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine,
say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable.

+config X86_NUMAQ
+ bool "IBM/Sequent NUMAQ"
+ help
+ This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA
+ multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped,
+ and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical.
+ You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send
+ email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com
+
# Visual Workstation support is utterly broken.
# If you want to see it working mail an VW540 to hch@infradead.org 8)
-#bool 'SGI Visual Workstation support' CONFIG_VISWS
+#config VISWS
+# bool "SGI Visual Workstation support"

endchoice

@@ -430,24 +440,8 @@
This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds
approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image.

-config X86_NUMA
- bool "Multi-node NUMA system support"
- depends on SMP
-
-#Platform Choices
-config X86_NUMAQ
- bool "Multiquad (IBM/Sequent) NUMAQ support"
- depends on X86_NUMA
- help
- This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA
- multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped,
- and uses Clustered Logical APIC addressing mode instead of Flat Logical.
- You will need a new lynxer.elf file to flash your firmware with - send
- email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com
-
config X86_SUMMIT
bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA) support"
- depends on X86_NUMA
help
This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset.
In particular, it is needed for the x440.
@@ -456,7 +450,7 @@

config CLUSTERED_APIC
bool
- depends on X86_NUMA && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
+ depends on X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT
default y

# Common NUMA Features
-
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