From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D23DDF1B for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 05:44:05 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] [POWERPC] allow pSeries to build without CONFIG_PCI From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Arnd Bergmann In-Reply-To: <200703041507.06307.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20070304165839.4d2bf50b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20070304170348.511af7cb.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20070304170444.2eb423ce.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <200703041507.06307.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:43:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1173033826.8184.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Stephen Rothwell List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 15:07 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 04 March 2007 07:04:44 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > config PCI > > bool "PCI support" if 40x || CPM2 || PPC_83xx || PPC_85xx || PPC_86xx \ > > - || PPC_MPC52xx || (EMBEDDED && PPC_ISERIES) || MPC7448HPC2 || PPC_PS3 > > + || PPC_MPC52xx || (EMBEDDED && (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_ISERIES)) \ > > + || MPC7448HPC2 || PPC_PS3 > > This may be a dumb question, but system would you want to run a pSeries > kernel without PCI on? Is this just for build tests, or is there an > actual application for this? When running in an LPAR, it's fairly common to have no PCI devices, and it's thus possible to imagine somebody wanting to build something without PCI. I dislike the giant conditional though. Ben.