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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.5.70 compile error
    "William" == William Lee Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
    William> CONFIG_NR_CPUS should appear under the processor type and
    William> features menu.

    On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:50:37PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
    > I must not have been clear enough in my rant, so let me rephrase it.
    > Because I had already configured NR_CPUS=2, I'm not sure that I should
    > have even gotten the choice of X86_BIGSMP at all, since it's obviously
    > not valid in this case.
    > I'm really asking for the configuration specifications and
    > dependencies to be cleaned up, and maybe I'll try to do it myself and
    > send in the patch. Right now I'm going to be trying 2.5.70-mm1 with a
    > patch for my ISA Cyclades board first.

    They're meant to specify system types, in particular APIC configurations.


    On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:50:37PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
    > So the real thrust of my posts before was:
    > The language and description used when running 'make oldconfig' and
    > trying to set the "X86_GENERICARCH" option is ugly and hard to
    > understand and doesn't match how it's shown in the 'make menuconfig'
    > settings.
    > Sure, I realize that oldconfig is more a helper than a real
    > interface, but it still has warts that I'd like to fix or have
    > someone else fix if I can't do it myself.
    > Maybe the entire issue is really how do you do specify and constrain
    > inputs properly in this setup?

    No idea. Ask Roman Zippel.

    My expectation is that we aren't going to make kernel configuration
    safe for Aunt Tillie anytime in the near future.


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