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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:24:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EA4557.6070107@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139426479.26420.189.camel@localhost>

Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:35 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 
> 
>>The current set looks close ... perhaps PCI should be added as it isn't
>>likely to inconvenience anyone, but SMP is a lot further into murky territory
> 
> 
>    Seems like maybe PCI was removed so that it was possible to configure
> a generic kernel to boot on the simulator...  I could imagine not having
> PCI might have some degree of usefulness when using a ramdisk.  Isn't
> this what the defconfigs are for?

Hi Alex,

That could explain it, but the question is whether one would want to
boot a generic kernel when running on a simulator. After all then every
cycle does count ;)

Anyway I think we're down nit picking in details. My vote is for
preserving status quo.

Cheers,
Jes

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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:24:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EA4557.6070107@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139426479.26420.189.camel@localhost>

Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:35 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 
> 
>>The current set looks close ... perhaps PCI should be added as it isn't
>>likely to inconvenience anyone, but SMP is a lot further into murky territory
> 
> 
>    Seems like maybe PCI was removed so that it was possible to configure
> a generic kernel to boot on the simulator...  I could imagine not having
> PCI might have some degree of usefulness when using a ramdisk.  Isn't
> this what the defconfigs are for?

Hi Alex,

That could explain it, but the question is whether one would want to
boot a generic kernel when running on a simulator. After all then every
cycle does count ;)

Anyway I think we're down nit picking in details. My vote is for
preserving status quo.

Cheers,
Jes

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-07 22:11 [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 22:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 22:37 ` Keith Owens
2006-02-07 22:37   ` Keith Owens
2006-02-07 22:43   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-07 22:43     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-07 22:53     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 22:53       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 23:17   ` [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 23:17     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  0:52     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  0:52       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  1:19       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  1:19         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  1:40     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  1:40       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  2:08       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  2:08         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  2:17     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  2:17       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  2:43       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  2:43         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  2:48     ` Keith Owens
2006-02-08  2:48       ` Keith Owens
2006-02-08  2:54       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-08  2:54         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-08  2:58     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  2:58       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  3:51       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  3:51         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08  5:52     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08  5:52       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 11:59       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 11:59         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 13:38         ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-08 13:38           ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-08 21:38           ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 21:38             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 12:53             ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 12:53               ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 13:18               ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-09 13:18                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-09 13:26                 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 13:26                   ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 14:16                   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 14:16                     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 15:19                     ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 15:19                       ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-08 18:35     ` Luck, Tony
2006-02-08 18:35       ` Luck, Tony
2006-02-08 19:21       ` Alex Williamson
2006-02-08 19:21         ` Alex Williamson
2006-02-08 19:24         ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-02-08 19:24           ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-08 19:48     ` Luck, Tony
2006-02-08 19:48       ` Luck, Tony
2006-02-08 19:55     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 19:55       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 21:24       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-08 21:24         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-08 21:36     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 21:36       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 22:24     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 22:24       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 22:49       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 22:49         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 22:35     ` Luck, Tony
2006-02-08 22:35       ` Luck, Tony
2006-02-07 23:06 ` [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff Luck, Tony
2006-02-07 23:06   ` Luck, Tony

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