Re: Forced PCI support in kernel

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:15:56AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> > i guess is that you have to _compile_ the kernel with or without pci, so
> > what happens is that in order for a kernel to be able to use, or not use
> > pm2fb, it needs to be compiled with pci.
> 
> Exactly. pm2fb needs PCI to be compiled in.
> 
> 
> > > > What's the consensus on always having PCI support compiled in ?
> > > >
> > > > Should it be an option ?
> > >
> > > well, it should be an option if those without pm2's dont need PCI
> > 
> > Well, that said, it should be possible to compile the kernel without pci nor
> > pm2fb, but this should only be a configuration file change i think, ...
> > 
> > That is unless i missed something, Michel ?
> 
> As I said, PCI support is currently not a configure option but depends on the
> architecture. If you want to change that, go ahead. I don't think moving even
> further from the 'official' kernel is a good idea though.

What difference are there if you enable PCI or not ?

will enabling PCI on all apus kernel be causing a problem ? making the kernel
bigger ? 

I think the best guess would be to have a global option to enable a pci kernel
or not, if not we go for the old kernel style, and if yes we go for a pci
kernel.

If the kernel is pci less, just don't propose pm2fb ?

I suppose this would be no more changes than adding a configure option to the
configuration stuff ?

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER