ppc64 oops..

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Wed Nov 16 04:43:32 EST 2005


Hi,

> I'd love to, but then it never boots at all, and stops after "Setup done".
> 
> I'll now try with "flatmem", although on powerpc, sparsemem seems to be 
> the default, and I bet that's the cause: 
> 
> 	config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
> 	        def_bool y
> 	        depends on SMP && PPC_PSERIES
> 
> just because I had PSERIES enabled (which is _also_ the default).
> 
> So nobody has clearly ever tested either NUMA nor SPARSEMEM, yet they are 
> both enabled by default. Tssk.

All options (flatmem, sparsmem and NUMA sparsemem) were tested on
pseries, I dont have access to a g5 in Austin unfortunately.

Anton



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