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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:43:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

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.