Dann, On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:40:16AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:36:54PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > I recently used an Itanium machine booted with a 2.6 Linux kernel. > > > The exact package is: > > > kernel-image-2.6.11-1-mckinley-smp_2.6.11-6_ia64.deb > > > > > > It does appear that this kernel is compiled without CONFIG_PALINFO > > > which means there is no /proc/pal/cpu* entries. > > > > I filed this under > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321885 > > > > for the latest 2.6.12 packages which have the same thing. > > > > Note that CONFIG_PALINFO was set to m - most things in Debian kernels > are set to build as a module, if possible. >
What's the value of having PALINFO as module? The firmware interface does not evolve very often. If module is preferred then, some rc scripts should load it automatically somehow. > I've made 2.6.12-2 link it statically. However, it'd probably be good > to have user apps load this module, if needed. -- -Stephane - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
