Re: nvidia on sparc32

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 01:21:07 -0700
> 
> > In file included from drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:50:                       include/video/vga.h:24:21: asm/vga.h: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Dave, do you think a copy of the sparc64 vga.h will suffice?
> 
> Sure, but none of this is ever likely to work.
> 
> FWIW, all sparc32 systems with PCI have internal devices only and no
> PCI add-in cards, and they'll never see an NVIDIA device.
> 
> So it's a different situation than sparc64 where someone could put an
> NVIDIA card into a PCI slot and we'd like that to work.
> 
> I wish there were an easy way to eliminate nonsense configuration
> combinations for a given platform.

hm, OK, thanks.  Given that it all compiles with the borrowed vga.h, I
guess the simplest thing to do is to run with that - it fixes allmodconfig,
avoids mucking up the Kconfig files and gives us wide compile coverage.

What thinkest thou?


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