Re: Forced PCI support in kernel

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Nicholai Benalal wrote:

> KT> The latest Permedia 2 update as resulted in CONFIG_PCI always being true
> KT> with no way to remove it - even if a) you have no need for PCI, b) no
> KT> Permedia 2.
> KT>
> KT> What's the consensus on always having PCI support compiled in ?
> KT>
> KT> Should it be an option ?
> 
> What??? Even if you don't have a board? That sounds like a bug to me...not
> again :-(

PCI is an architecture thing in the current kernel. Either an architecture has
PCI, or it doesn't.

If we try to make it dependent on pm2fb, we may run into some kind of chicken
and egg problem - pm2fb depends on PCI support...


Michel


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