Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 10:56:04 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error |
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"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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