linux-kernel - Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:31:42 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error


* Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:29:19PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:13:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > * Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > ok, that's good enough - that's why i excluded it from the 
> > > > > > auto-qa test-space as well. Adrian, could you please remove 
> > > > > > it from your config testset as well? If a user enables that 
> > > > > > config option it wont boot anyway so it's not a problem in 
> > > > > > practice.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Who said that Voyager won't boot?
> > > > 
> > > > Adrian, you build Voyager kernels so just try to boot it once on 
> > > > your PC and watch the show ...
> > > 
> > > Ingo, an ia64 kernel also won't boot on my computer, and I'll 
> > > still compile test my patches for ia64 ...
> > 
> > dont be silly... the ia64 kernel is not under arch/x86, it's not 
> > even the same instruction format. Voyager runs on x86 CPUs and is 
> > part of the x86 architecture tree.
> 
> Your point is?

my point is what i said and which you apparently did not understand:

| Adrian, could you please remove it from your config testset as well? 
| If a user enables that config option it wont boot anyway so it's not a 
| problem in practice.

> I'm compile testing 22 architectures (especially when sending my own 
> patches), and whether a kernel would boot on my computer doesn't make 
> any difference.

a user wont 'accidentally' install a crosscompiler toolchain to create 
an unbootable kernel...

	Ingo
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