config-local question

[M Whitehead]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 08:29 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> cc'ing kernel-fedora
> 
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:26:13PM -0500, M Whitehead wrote:
> > Don,
> >   I'm trying compile a F14 2.3.37-2 kernel with some support for old
> > hardware. I'm trying to re-enable CONFIG_ISA and a few old ethernet
> > cards such as CONFIG_EL2.  Putting them into config-local doesn't seem
> > to be turning them back on.
> > 
> > Do you know what dependency I might have missed?
> 
> I would need to see your .config to see what you are doing wrong, but it
> works for me over here.  CONFIG_ISA seems to be enabled by default on
> Fedora in the git tree so you shouldn't have to do anything there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Don

I figured it out.

On my x86_64 system, I had to expressly say "--target=i686" for my
rpmbuild. I think x86_64 by _assumption_ cannot have an ISA bus, so it
forces CONFIG_ISA to false.

Oddly, my Adek MB-P4BWA motherboard with Q6600 Core 2 Quadcore is an
(admittedly rare) x86_64 system with two ISA slots.....

And why would you ever need more that 640k memory in a computer? :-)

- Matthew