Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:43:44 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] IA64_GENERIC shouldn't select other stuff |
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:37:11AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > A generic IA64 kernel requires (at least) the ACPI and NUMA options in > order to run on all the IA64 platforms out there. Omitting those > options and relying on the user to set them by hand is going to cause > more problems.
I'm not sure about that. If the user selects a specific type of machine, ACPI doesn't get selected for them -- even when it's needed to boot. It's certainly inconsistent and should be fixed one way or the other. - 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/
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