From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:52:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:52:17 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.181.86]:26380 "EHLO verein.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:52:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:00:35 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: torvalds@transmeta.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] clean up subarchitecture selection Message-ID: <20021230030035.A13575@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org shorter and/or more descriptive choice names, add a full (tho still commented out entry) for the visw, based on the 2.4 Configure.help entry. --- 1.21/arch/i386/Kconfig Sun Dec 29 19:45:51 2002 +++ edited/arch/i386/Kconfig Mon Dec 30 02:03:34 2002 @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ default PC config PC - bool PC + bool "IBM PC (and compatible)" help Choose this option if your computer is a standard PC or compatible. config VOYAGER - bool "NCR Voyager Architecture" - ---help--- + bool "NCR Voyager" + help Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable. config X86_NUMAQ - bool "Multiquad (IBM/Sequent) NUMAQ support" + bool "IBM/Sequent NUMAQ" help This option is used for getting Linux to run on a (IBM/Sequent) NUMA multiquad box. This changes the way that processors are bootstrapped, @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ email to Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com config X86_SUMMIT - bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA) support" + bool "IBM x440 (Summit/EXA)" help This option is needed for IBM systems that use the Summit/EXA chipset. In particular, it is needed for the x440. @@ -77,7 +77,16 @@ # Visual Workstation support is utterly broken. # If you want to see it working mail an VW540 to hch@infradead.org 8) -#bool 'SGI Visual Workstation support' CONFIG_VISWS +#config X86_VISWS +# bool "SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation)" +# help +# The SGI Visual Workstation series is an IA32-based workstation +# based on SGI systems chips with some legacy PC hardware attached. +# +# Say Y here to create a kernel to run on the SGI 320 or 540. +# +# A kernel compiled for the Visual Workstation will not run on PCs +# and vice versa. See for details. endchoice