From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:24:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff Message-Id: <43EA4557.6070107@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <1139426479.26420.189.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1139426479.26420.189.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alex Williamson Cc: "Luck, Tony" , Adrian Bunk , "Chen, Kenneth W" , Keith Owens , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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