From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Udo A. Steinberg" <reality@delusion.de>,
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
laughing@shared-source.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.12-ac5
Date: 22 Oct 2001 04:03:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1003737827.1712.39.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15va55-00017E-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15va55-00017E-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 04:05, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You aren't crazy, it doesn't build here either. The problem is that
> > fixmap.h only includes those defines if CONFIG_IO_APIC is defined.
> > Well, I don't have use IO_APIC (I am UP) but I do define
> > CONFIG_X86_APIC. So it does not compile.
>
> Ahah that would make sense.
Looking over the code it just seems like some ifdefs need sprinkling...
for the time being I just disabled CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC here.
> > So, the problem is that acpitable.c assumes you have both CONFIG_IO_APIC
> > and CONFIG_X86_APIC declared. It shouldn't. Even more important, why
> > is my system compiling acpitable.c now? I don't compile anything to do
> > with ACPI. What needs access to the ACPI tables via Mini-ACPI, now?
>
> It is needed for a small number of certain newer SMP systems, and
> potentially a lot more stuff in the near future.
Can it be made a config setting? "Use ACPI to determine irq routing or
whatever" ... it can even default to on. One good thing to note is that
it is all init/initdata, but its still a bloat of the kernel image.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-22 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-21 23:45 Linux 2.4.12-ac5 Alan Cox
2001-10-22 0:20 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-10-22 0:54 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-22 1:19 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-10-22 1:26 ` Robert Love
2001-10-22 8:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-22 8:03 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-10-22 8:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-22 1:48 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-22 5:41 ` Dwayne C. Litzenberger
2001-10-22 7:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-22 8:05 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-23 6:57 ` Linux 2.4.12-ac5 typo Gregory Ade
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