Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261189AbVDHXKq (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 19:10:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261191AbVDHXKp (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 19:10:45 -0400 Received: from mail.hypersurf.com ([209.237.0.6]:34575 "EHLO mail.hypersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261189AbVDHXKd (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 19:10:33 -0400 Message-ID: <42570EB3.3000905@hypersurf.com> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:07:31 -0700 From: Kevin Diggs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i486; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040809 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Kevin Diggs Subject: 2.4.25+ ppc32 "make xconfig" error Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 37 Hi, The make xconfig command spits out the following error (warning): ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable (CONFIG_ALTIVEC). This is on a PowerMac 8600 running YellowDog 2.1. Commenting the VMX thing for the Power4 in arch/ppc/config.in fixes the problem: [kevdig@PowerMac8600B ppc]$ diff -U 3 config-{old,new}_in --- config-old_in Thu Apr 7 22:25:11 2005 +++ config-new_in Fri Apr 8 15:56:32 2005 @@ -176,9 +176,9 @@ fi define_bool CONFIG_PPC_ISATIMER y fi -if [ "$CONFIG_POWER4" = "y" ]; then - bool 'VMX (same as AltiVec) support' CONFIG_ALTIVEC -fi +#if [ "$CONFIG_POWER4" = "y" ]; then +# bool 'VMX (same as AltiVec) support' CONFIG_ALTIVEC +#fi if [ "$CONFIG_4xx" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_8xx" = "y" ]; then bool 'Math emulation' CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION This problem also prevents you from enabling AltiVec (UI unresponsive). kevin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/