New comment by q5sys on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/14210#issuecomment-532239314

Comment:
I'll redo my commit and submit a new PR.

The change could also be implemented for i686 processors, but as there are no i686 CPUs with this number of cores, it'd have no practical effect.  I will do some digging and see if there is a specific override for multicore i686 systems somewhere else in the kernel config.  I'm not aware of one from my puppylinux dev days, but I may have just forgotten.  I'll check and make sure one way or the other.

I can't think of any i686 system with the possibility of more than 8 threads (old quad socket dual core Xeon systems).  We can implement this in a i686 kernel for booting on x86_64 machines, but I'd be far more comfortable doing some testing on that before I send a PR for that.  I'm not sure if there would be any complications for a large multiple core system running an i686 kernel.  I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even boot on my machine due to the needed NUMA code that I'm guessing was never extended for i686 in the way it had been for x86_64.  I have a bunch of older machines, so if your not opposed to it, i'd like to do testing of that before sending in a PR for the i686 kernel.  
I don't want my first PR for your project to break the kernel.