Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:10:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:10:19 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:57348 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:10:07 -0500 Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? To: esr@thyrsus.com Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:20:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), Lionel.Bouton@free.fr (Lionel Bouton), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel List) In-Reply-To: <20020103040301.A6936@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Jan 03, 2002 04:03:01 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So you're saying the users should be completely lost any time they want > to use an upated kernel? Quite honestly if you want a user built "update" kernel it should probably work out the critical stuff (CPU, memory size limit, SMP) set a few things to safe values, and build all the driver modules. Why ask the user at all. The boot process already knows what modules to load Instead you get Checking... This is an X86 platform You have an AMD K6 processor Your machine lacks SMP support You have 256Mb of memory I am building you a kernel for an AMD K6 series processor with up to 1Gb of memory and no SMP. If you add more than 1Gb of memory you will need to build a new kernel Alan - 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/