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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:56:41 -0800
From: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
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To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] VIA and SiS AGP chipsets are x86-only
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> There's no point in troubling the Alpha, IA-64, PowerPC and PARISC
> people with SiS and VIA options.  Andrew thinks it helps find bugs,
> but there's no evidence of that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig b/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig
> index c603bf2..a9f9c48 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/agp/Kconfig
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ config AGP_NVIDIA
> 
>  config AGP_SIS
>  	tristate "SiS chipset support"
> -	depends on AGP
> +	depends on AGP && X86
>  	help
>  	  This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
>  	  X on Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] chipsets.
> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ config AGP_SWORKS
> 
>  config AGP_VIA
>  	tristate "VIA chipset support"
> -	depends on AGP
> +	depends on AGP && X86
>  	help
>  	  This option gives you AGP support for the GLX component of
>  	  X on VIA MVP3/Apollo Pro chipsets.

I don't know about SiS, but this is certainly *not* true for Via.  There
are some PowerPC and, IIRC, Alpha motherboards that have Via chipsets.
My config-fu isn't quite what it should be, so this may be a dumb
question.  Does the "& X86" requirement exclude x86-64?
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