Re: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff

Jes Sorensen
2006-02-08T19:24:07Z

Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:35 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
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>>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
>
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> 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