Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030545AbWBHTVV (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:21:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030268AbWBHTVV (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:21:21 -0500 Received: from atlrel6.hp.com ([156.153.255.205]:42192 "EHLO atlrel6.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932482AbWBHTVU (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:21:20 -0500 Subject: RE: [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff From: Alex Williamson To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Jes Sorensen , Adrian Bunk , "Chen, Kenneth W" , Keith Owens , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: LOSL Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:21:19 -0700 Message-Id: <1139426479.26420.189.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 20 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? Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab - 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/