>Hello Maurice
>
>> It's missing from .config in at least a few releases of recent
>> kernels (2.6.10, 2.6.11).
>
>Definitly not true, at least for ppc32.
Note that..
1) I looked only at official kernel source code
and
2) I looked only at a few releases, not every patchset.
and
3) I looked only at the resulting .config file after preparing it
with make menuconfig.
>Linux g5 2.6.10-gentoo-r6-g5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 26 23:05:05 CET 2005 ppc
>PPC970, altivec supported PowerMac7,2 GNU/Linux
From what I can tell, the .config file is built up from different
files. I just looked at gentoo-dev-sources for this version and it
is, in fact, present for ppc64 in
/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6/arch/ppc64/defconfig
That suggests the mechanism that generates the .config files is not
working right under certain circumstances related to the 64bit G5.
--
Maurice Volaski, [email protected]
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 18:41 -0500, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> From what I can tell, the .config file is built up from different
> files. I just looked at gentoo-dev-sources for this version and it
> is, in fact, present for ppc64 in
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6/arch/ppc64/defconfig
>
> That suggests the mechanism that generates the .config files is not
> working right under certain circumstances related to the 64bit G5.
The default config for G5s is arch/ppc64/configs/g5_defconfig, there is
only one for 64 bits. 32 bits on G5s is unsupported (and will probably
not work with more recent machines).
Ben.