I believe the flag you should be looking at is

-DCPU=686

Kirk

>On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:

> "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > Trying to compile a 2.2.16 kernel for a compaq proliant 3000
> > > with 2 PII 333s.  The reason is do that I can test frees/wan
> > > as a solution for our vpn needs if anyone cares.
> > >
> > > Anyway, Since it is a server I unselected all sound  support
> > > in make menuconfig and a whole bunch of apparently (to me )
> > > extraneous stuff.  make modules quits with the errors below
> > > .  It looks like this is due to radio-micropcm.c needing a
> > > low level driver from the sound stuff.  Is this correct?  I
> > > have nothing remotely relating to radio anything selected in
> > > menuconfig so I don't even know why I need this object.
> > > Sure enough there is a lot of radio* code in the
> > > ./drivers/char directory but I am clueless as to why I need
> > > it.  Do I?
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> > >
> > > Bret
> > >
> > >
> > You probably have "Video for Linux" enabled.  This includes some devices
> > that need sound support.  Go to the "Character devices" section of the
> > config, select "Video for Linux", and turn it off.
> >
> > Mikkel
> > --
> 
> Thanks Mikkel, That appears to be the fix.  As I have only done this a few
> times, I have another question.  I selected PPro as the cpu type in
> menuconfig but I notice that in all the lines I have seen scroll by, the
> -m486 flag is set.. Is this correct?
> 
> Here is the processor section from .config:
> 
> #
> # Processor type and features
> #
> # CONFIG_M386 is not set
> # CONFIG_M486 is not set
> # CONFIG_M586 is not set
> # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
> CONFIG_M686=y
> CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
> CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
> CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
> CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
> CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
> CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
> # CONFIG_1GB is not set
> CONFIG_2GB=y
> # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
> CONFIG_MTRR=y
> CONFIG_SMP=y
> 
> The sample from the previous post still applies:
> cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
> -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
> -DCPU=686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o
> radio-miropcm20.o radio-miropcm20.c
> 
> 
> 
> There are two pentium II 333 MHz processors in the machine
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Bret
> 
> 
> 
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