Re: [PATCH] Summit support for 2.5 [0/4]

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> PS. This distros want Summit to autodetect for their install kernels,
>> which is what the x86_summit switch is for.
> 
> Why?  Can't summit boot just fine on a i386 UP kernel?  Then they can
> look at the chipset id and determine that they should install a
> summit-built kernel, right?

Probably could, but that's what they asked for. Maybe they don't mean
install kernel, but just running kernel in general. I presume they
don't want to maintain a seperate kernel just for Summit.
 
> Can this just be CONFIG_SUMMIT?  I think most of these fixes need to be
> around for the ia64 version too :(

Nope, this is all under the i386 arch tree. ia64 can do what they
please, as far as I'm concerned.

> As we're going to end up with a mess of a ifdef nest over time with new
> archs added, how about something like this (completly untested):

Yeah, that was a quick hack by some idiot who doesn't speak much make ;-)
I'll steal Kai's thing from later in this thread.

> Other than that, looks like a good start to me (oh your email client is
> wrapping lines of the patch...)

Yeah, home email is borked for that, sorry. I'll do it properly when I
submit it.

M.