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SubjectRe: why no Kconfig in "kernel" subdir?
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:34:26 -0500 Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

| Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|
|
| > I consider PREEMPT and SMP arch-specific, not generic.
|
| Interesting. Might I ask why? I thought that most of PREEMPT was
| pretty arch-neutral.

Right, most of it is arch-neutral.
It appears that PA-RISC doesn't support PREEMPT:

include/asm-parisc/hardirq.h:
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
# error CONFIG_PREEMT currently not supported.
[complete with typo]

and UML doesn't support PREEMPT either.


| > Will init/Kconfig do what you want?
|
| As long as there is some place to put generic options that are
| applicable to the system as a whole, then I'm happy.

I expect that it's workable.

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~Randy
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