From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Chubb Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:33:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.18) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "David" = David Mosberger writes: David> The latest ia64 patch is now availabe at ftp.CC.kernel.org in David> /pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/v2.4/: Peter> With this patched kernel, one cannot configure the loop device Peter> when using the HP simulator. Peter> I moved the line that sourced the block-device config script Peter> outside the HP_SIM guards, as in the appended patch. David> Hmmh, I'm a bit reluctant to do this, as it will pull in all David> the other drivers, 99% of which won't build. How about just David> including the loopback prompt directly in the ia64 config? If David> this works, send me a patch and I'll include it. (Yes, I David> realize that's kludgy, but presumably this will all get cleaned David> up if and when the new kernel configuration makes it into 2.5). OK, Here it is. We probably need to do something similar for the scsi config. This patch is against a 2.4.18 kernel with the IA64 patch. --- linux/arch/ia64/config.in Thu Mar 7 09:21:50 2002 +++ linux-local/arch/ia64/config.in Thu Mar 7 09:28:08 2002 @@ -152,6 +152,17 @@ fi endmenu +else # ! HP_SIM +mainmenu_option next_comment +comment 'Block devices' +tristate 'Loopback device support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP +dep_tristate 'Network block device support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD $CONFIG_NET + +tristate 'RAM disk support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM +if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM" = "m" ]; then + int ' Default RAM disk size' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE 4096 +fi +endmenu fi # !HP_SIM mainmenu_option next_comment