Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 23:11:20 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error |
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> At some point in the past, Dave Jones' attribution was stripped from: >>> Given that 99% of users will be choosing option 1, it might be a >>> good thing to have the remaining options only shown if a >>> CONFIG_X86_SUBARCHS=y and have things default to option 1 if =n. > > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: >> Please, not more layered config options! That just makes people who >> want to enable the x440 or other alternative platform require fair >> amounts of psychic power (maybe this can be fixed with a big fat help >> message, but so can the current method). >> If you're going hide the other options away so much, then the default >> should be the generic arch, IMHO. > > Or better yet, remove all the #ifdefs, finish generalizing the APIC > code, and have nothing to configure at all. For 2.7 ...
For the "commerical" options like Summit and bigsmp, I think this is an option for 2.5 even, given some more testing. And then the wierdo arches can be better hidden ;-)
M.
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