On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:43:44PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:37:11AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> > A generic IA64 kernel requires (at least) the ACPI and NUMA options in
> > order to run on all the IA64 platforms out there. Omitting those
> > options and relying on the user to set them by hand is going to cause
> > more problems.
>
> I'm not sure about that. If the user selects a specific type of machine,
> ACPI doesn't get selected for them -- even when it's needed to boot.
> It's certainly inconsistent and should be fixed one way or the other.
And PCI is never selected for him with IA64_GENERIC.
I see the point for a catch-all option for processor-specific stuff, but
it can't be a replacement for allyesconfig.
AFAIR your defconfig was intended for the "runs everywhere" case (with
the exception that in this case the bug that CONFIG_ITANIUM is not set
is still unfixed - would you accept a patch to fix this?).
cu
Adrian
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