Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:24:07 +0100 | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff |
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Alex Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 10:35 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > > >>The current set looks close ... perhaps PCI should be added as it isn't >>likely to inconvenience anyone, but SMP is a lot further into murky territory > > > Seems like maybe PCI was removed so that it was possible to configure > a generic kernel to boot on the simulator... I could imagine not having > PCI might have some degree of usefulness when using a ramdisk. Isn't > this what the defconfigs are for?
Hi Alex,
That could explain it, but the question is whether one would want to boot a generic kernel when running on a simulator. After all then every cycle does count ;)
Anyway I think we're down nit picking in details. My vote is for preserving status quo.
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