--On Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:28:36 -0700 Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:56 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: >> This patch for 2.6.13-git5 fixes single node sparsemem support. In the case >> when multiple nodes are used, setup_memory() in arch/i386/mm/discontig.c >> calls >> get_memcfg_numa() which calls memory_present(). The single node case with >> setup_memory() in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c does not call memory_present() >> without this patch, which breaks single node support. > > First of all, this is really a feature addition, not a bug fix. :) > > The reason we haven't included this so far is that we don't really have > any machines that need sparsemem on i386 that aren't NUMA. So, we > disabled it for now, and probably need to decide first why we need it > before a patch like that goes in. CONFIG_NUMA was meant to (and did at one point) support both NUMA and flat machines. This is essential in order for the distros to support it - same will go for sparsemem. M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
