Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only

Ian Romanick
2006-12-05T23:00:07Z

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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> There's no point in troubling the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC and PARISC
> people with SiS and VIA options. Andrew thinks it helps find bugs,
> but there's no evidence of that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig b/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig
> index c603bf2..a9f9c48 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ config AGP_NVIDIA
>
> config AGP_SIS
> tristate "SiS chipset support"
> - depends on AGP
> + depends on AGP && X86
> help
> This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
> X on Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] chipsets.
> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ config AGP_SWORKS
>
> config AGP_VIA
> tristate "VIA chipset support"
> - depends on AGP
> + depends on AGP && X86
> help
> This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
> X on VIA MVP3/Apollo Pro chipsets.

I don't know about SiS, but this is certainly *not* true for Via. There
are some PowerPC and, IIRC, Alpha motherboards that have Via chipsets.
My config-fu isn't quite what it should be, so this may be a dumb
question. Does the "& X86" requirement exclude x86-64?
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