Supplying missing entries for Configure.help -- corrections

Supplying missing entries for Configure.help -- corrections

[Eric S. Raymond]

Some minor corrections to my Configure.help patches, as suggested by
lkml regulars.  Should be applied on top of my patches 1-4.

--- Configure.help	2001/04/18 05:27:07	1.5
+++ Configure.help	2001/04/18 13:21:24
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 Prompt for drivers for obsolete features and hardware
 CONFIG_OBSOLETE
   Obsolete drivers have usually been replaced by more recent software that
-  can talk to the same hardware.  Obsolerte hardware is things like MGA 
+  can talk to the same hardware.  Obsolete hardware is things like MGA 
   monitors that you are very unlikely to see on today's systems.
 
 Symmetric Multi Processing
@@ -1631,14 +1631,14 @@
 
 Support for Cobalt Micro Server
 CONFIG_COBALT_MICRO_SERVER
-  Support for ARM-based Cobalt boxes (they have been bought by Sun and
+  Support for MIPS-based Cobalt boxes (they have been bought by Sun and
   are now the "Server Appliance Business Unit") including the 2700 series
   -- versions 1 of the Qube and Raq.  To compile a Linux kernel for this
   hardware, say Y here.
 
 Support for Cobalt 2800
 CONFIG_COBALT_28
-  Support for the second generation of ARM-based Cobalt boxes (they have
+  Support for the second generation of MIPS-based Cobalt boxes (they have
   been bought by Sun and are now the "Server Appliance Business Unit")
   including the 2800 series -- versions 2 of the Qube and Raq.  To compile
   a Linux kernel for this hardware, say Y here.
@@ -2979,13 +2979,6 @@
   called binfmt_aout.o. Saying M or N here is dangerous though,
   because some crucial programs on your system might still be in A.OUT
   format.
-
-Kernel support for JAVA binaries
-CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA
-  If you answer Y here, the kernel's program loader will know how to
-  directly execute Java J-code.  This option is semi-obsolescent; you 
-  should probably use CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC and read Documentation/java.txt
-  for information about how to include Java support.
 
 Kernel support for Linux/Intel ELF binaries
 CONFIG_BINFMT_EM86
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Re: Supplying missing entries for Configure.help -- corrections

[Alan Cox]

>  Support for Cobalt Micro Server
>  CONFIG_COBALT_MICRO_SERVER
> -  Support for ARM-based Cobalt boxes (they have been bought by Sun and
 +  Support for MIPS-based Cobalt boxes (they have been bought by Sun and

Cobalt support was removed in the 2.4.4pre4 tree. Its not been maintained
for 2.4 because nobody is interested in doing the job

Re: Supplying missing entries for Configure.help -- corrections

[Eric S. Raymond]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> >  Support for Cobalt Micro Server
> >  CONFIG_COBALT_MICRO_SERVER
> > -  Support for ARM-based Cobalt boxes (they have been bought by Sun and
>  +  Support for MIPS-based Cobalt boxes (they have been bought by Sun and
> 
> Cobalt support was removed in the 2.4.4pre4 tree. Its not been maintained
> for 2.4 because nobody is interested in doing the job

OK, I'll add that and COBALT_28 to my list of dead symbols to be removed.
I'm working on patches to do that now.

Have you applied Steven Cole's version of my Configure.help patches
1-5 yet?  If not, would you prefer to see further incremental patches
or a consolidated config-namespace cleanup patch including both
help additions and dead-symbol removals?  I can do either; please let me
know which would make life easier for you.

(Intentionally, none of this is CML2 stuff.)
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Re: Supplying missing entries for Configure.help -- corrections

[Alan Cox]

> Have you applied Steven Cole's version of my Configure.help patches
> 1-5 yet?  If not, would you prefer to see further incremental patches

Steven has sent me a nice consolidated patch already..

Re: Supplying missing entries for Configure.help -- corrections

[Eric S. Raymond]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Have you applied Steven Cole's version of my Configure.help patches
> > 1-5 yet?  If not, would you prefer to see further incremental patches
> 
> Steven has sent me a nice consolidated patch already..

OK.  Expect from me, then, a second patch that (a) cleans up three
duplicates I introduced, (b) removes dead symbols, and (c) puts explicit
delimiters on URLs and filenames in help text.  You should get this in
four or five hours max.

I'm resyncing with pre4 now.
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