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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Ricky lloyd <ricky.lloyd@gmail.com>
Cc: Raj <inguva@gmail.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Build problems with APM/Subarch type
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:21:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416CBB5E.7050803@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a50bd370410122221ebb3796@mail.gmail.com>

Ricky lloyd wrote:
>>>Did all the configuration properly, except that i fumbled on the keyboard and
>>>the option 'Subarchitecture Type' somehow got set to
>>>'(SGI 320/540 Visual Workstation)'.
>>
>>Using an editor or make *config?  which *config?
> 
> 
> make menuconfig.
> 
> 
>>>The build failed with an error 'Undefined reference to machine_real_restart'
>>
>>Yep, I see that also.
>>
>>
>>>It seems that , unless Subarch is PC-Compatible ( CONFIG_PC ) ,
>>>CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT will not be set and thusly, reboot.c would not be
>>>compiled.
>>>
>>>( yeah, i know messing around with configs is suicidal, but.... )
>>>
>>>Can this be fixed ?? At the very least, hide APM options #if !(CONFIG_PC) ??
>>
>>Do you/we/maintainer know that APM is not applicable to all of the
>>other PC sub-arches?
>>
> 
> afaics, i found 'apm.c' only in arch/i386/kernel and arch/arm/kernel.
> does that really
> confirm that apm would not be applicable for other archs ?? 

The question is actually about other PC sub-arches, not other (Big)
arch-es.

> 
>>I agree that it should be fixed, one way or another.
>>--


-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-12 11:38 Build problems with APM/Subarch type Raj
2004-10-13  5:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-13  5:21   ` Ricky lloyd
2004-10-13  5:21     ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-10-13  5:27   ` Raj
2004-10-13  5:26     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-14  9:15       ` Andrey Panin
2004-10-14 22:34         ` [PATCH] VISWS: disable APM Randy.Dunlap

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