new options to enable in s390x kernels

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Tue Feb 12 22:04:48 UTC 2013


Dave Jones píše v Út 12. 02. 2013 v 14:56 -0500: 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 05:13:04PM +0100, Dan Horák wrote:
>  > and for 3.8 kernels I think we should enable
>  > CONFIG_PCI=y 
>  > unless it will be inherited from the generic config
>  > 
>  > yes, PCI is coming also to s390 :-) 
> 
> Welcome to the mid 1990s!

it's meant as publicly visible PCI(-E), it already has these well known
buses and interconnects under the hood

> Enabling this will also mean every PCI driver will be enabled
> unless we explicitly mark them as disabled in config-s390
> 
> Some of these don't make a lot of sense on s390. (Though the
> idea of an s390 with a TV card amuses me).

me too :-)

> Could you come up with a list of PCI drivers you expect to be
> used on s390 ?

I'll ask our friends in IBM how this is expected to be configured


Dan




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