Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:17:13 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | [2.6 patch] let IA64_GENERIC select more 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. > > If anything, there should be more options being set as a side effect of > selecting IA64_GENERIC, including ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE, > ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE, PCI and even SMP.
IOW, you want the patch below?
Not that I'm a big fan of this approach, but if it should be done this way, it should be done right.
cu Adrian
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Let IA64_GENERIC select more stuff (as wanted by the ia64 developers).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
--- linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm5-ia64/arch/ia64/Kconfig.old 2006-02-07 23:07:29.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm5-ia64/arch/ia64/Kconfig 2006-02-08 00:13:58.000000000 +0100 @@ -73,10 +73,12 @@ config IA64_GENERIC bool "generic" select ACPI select NUMA select ACPI_NUMA + select PCI + select SMP help This selects the system type of your hardware. A "generic" kernel will run on any supported IA-64 system. However, if you configure a kernel for your specific system, it will be faster and smaller. @@ -132,10 +134,11 @@ This choice is safe for all IA-64 systems, but may not perform optimally on systems with, say, Itanium 2 or newer processors. config MCKINLEY bool "Itanium 2" + depends on IA64_GENERIC=n help Select this to configure for an Itanium 2 (McKinley) processor. endchoice @@ -318,11 +321,11 @@ for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons. See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more. config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE - def_bool y + def_bool y if IA64_GENERIC=n config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE def_bool y depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE - 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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