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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] [POWERPC] allow pSeries to build without CONFIG_PCI
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Hi,

> 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?

We have disabled it to build cut down kernels during bringup, and when
using things like mambo when you dont care about IO.

Anton