linux-kernel - Re: RFC [PATCH] x86: make generic arch support NUMAQ

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Message-ID: <86802c440806051033k7a0a5306qc22555d3ebd48757@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:33:37 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] x86: make generic arch support NUMAQ

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>
>> > +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ) || defined(CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH)
>>
>> I counted several places where you test for the above. Introducing a
>> CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ_OR_GENERIC would simplify stuff.
>
> Yinghai, please get rid of the NUMAQ build option altogether and
> eliminate the subarch.
>
> We should keep a compatibility CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ that selects
> X86_GENERICARCH, so that 'make oldconfig' on a NUMAQ config does the
> right thing - but it's not a subarch anymore nor anything
> user-configurable.

how about the Summit, and ES7000? You still have the two entries for them.

Anyway, will remove entry in the list and make CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ select
X86_GENERICARCH

and make the those ifdef only use X86_GENERICARCH...

YH
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