From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:55:58 +0000
Subject: RE: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff
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To: 'Jes Sorensen' <jes@sgi.com>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Jes Sorensen wrote on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:24 AM
> > 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?
> > 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 ;)


CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC select CONFIG_ACPI, and CONFIG_ACPI select CONFIG_PCI,
This whole thread is silly since the beginning and it is a moot point for
all of previous discussions.  What are we talking about exactly??

- Ken