Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:19:39PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

 > > What the hell am I supposed to enter here?  This is just friggin ugly
 > > and un-readable.  It should be cleaned up.
 > I agree and I already fixed this here, so with the next update this will 
 > look like this:
 > 
 > Subarchitecture Type
 > > 1. PC-compatible (X86_PC)
 >   2. Voyager (NCR) (X86_VOYAGER)
 >   3. NUMAQ (IBM/Sequent) (X86_NUMAQ)
 >   4. Summit/EXA (IBM x440) (X86_SUMMIT)
 >   5. Support for other sub-arch SMP systems with more than 8 CPUs (X86_BIGSMP)
 >   6. SGI 320/540 (Visual Workstation) (X86_VISWS)
 >   7. Generic architecture (Summit, bigsmp, default) (X86_GENERICARCH) (NEW)
 > choice[1-7]: 
 > 
 > This has other advantages too, one can see now which options were newly 
 > added and the individual help texts are accessible.

Given that 99% of users will be choosing option 1, it might be a
good thing to have the remaining options only shown if a
CONFIG_X86_SUBARCHS=y and have things default to option 1 if =n.

		Dave