From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:43:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060207224344.GF1601@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9883.1139351831@ocs3>
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:37:11AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> A generic IA64 kernel requires (at least) the ACPI and NUMA options in
> order to run on all the IA64 platforms out there. Omitting those
> options and relying on the user to set them by hand is going to cause
> more problems.
I'm not sure about that. If the user selects a specific type of machine,
ACPI doesn't get selected for them -- even when it's needed to boot.
It's certainly inconsistent and should be fixed one way or the other.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-07 22:11 [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 22:37 ` Keith Owens
2006-02-07 22:43 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-02-07 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 23:17 ` [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 0:52 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 1:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 1:40 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 2:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 2:17 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 2:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 2:48 ` Keith Owens
2006-02-08 2:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-08 2:58 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 3:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 5:52 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 11:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 13:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-08 21:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-08 22:24 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-02-08 22:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 12:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 13:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-09 13:26 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-02-09 14:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 15:19 ` Jes Sorensen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-07 23:06 [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff Luck, Tony
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