Re: [PATCH] An generic subarchitecture for 2.5.68

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:42:17 +0200


On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:11:47AM +0200, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This patch adds an generic x86 subarchitecture.
>
> It causes a large number of compilation errors with the config at
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/config
>
> Some Kconfig help would be nice...

Ah - you didn't compile it with CONFIG_SMP. Ok, that was not tested
and frankly doesn't make any sense because you don't need an APIC
driver for > 8 CPUs for an UP kernel.

Really BIGSMP, SUMMIT, GENERICARCH need to be only enabled with
SMP is enabled.

But Kconfig seems to ignore depends inside choice. Roman, any ideas
how to fix that?

-Andi

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