From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:51:43 +0000 Subject: Re: problem in booting HP zx6000 with stock kernel 2.5.75 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 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:51:29AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > Hi Ian, here's a patch that adds config files for sn2 and generic > builds. I've been thinking that maybe arch/ia64/defconfig should be a > generic kernel though, one that can run on dig (tiger and NEC > preferably), zx1, and sn2 boxes, and that we have a couple of other > configs in arch/ia64 somewhere for specific machines. > diff -Nru a/arch/ia64/configs/generic b/arch/ia64/configs/generic > diff -Nru a/arch/ia64/configs/sn2 b/arch/ia64/configs/sn2 Jesse and I discussed this yesterday. To take advantage of the new multiple-defconfigs scheme in 2.6, what we need to do is: - Create files called arch/ia64/configs/*_defconfig - To use them, type "make zx1_defconfig" (for example). - Keep them up to date ... There's a bikeshed question about which configs to support. I think the rule is pretty simple -- if someone's willing to step up and maintain the config for a platform, let's put it in. I'd suggest we want to have defconfig as generic, then add configs/ - zx1_defconfig - sn2_defconfig - dig_defconfig (should work for bigsur, lion, tiger boxes) - sim_defconfig I don't mind maintaining the zx1_defconfig if nobody else wants to. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk