From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:41:41 +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 Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:51:43PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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. Sounds like a plan to me. I'll take care of sn2_defconfig. Seems like these files should go in shortly after 2.6.0 releases so that people have something usable for the stable kernel. Jesse