Re: PROBLEM: v2.4.29 won't compile with PCI support disabled

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>]

Don Guy writes:
 > PROBLEM:
 > 
 > Attempts to compile v2.4.29 with PCI support disabled result in the
 > following errors:
 > 
 > drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig10x_init_fn':
 > drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12cd): undefined reference to
 > `pci_siig10x_fn'
 > drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig20x_init_fn':
 > drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12ed): undefined reference to
 > `pci_siig20x_fn'
 > 
 > It has been suggested that enabling PCI support in the kernel will make this
 > go away however a) enabling PCI support on a 486 which only has ISA & VLB is
 > downright silly, and b) a test run with CONFIG_PCI=y resulted in a plethora
 > of other errors.

Presumably this is because of other CONFIG options which are still
enabled but don't work w/o CONFIG_PCI. So please post your .config.

Both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels with CONFIG_PCI=n work Ok(*) on my 486.

/Mikael

(*) 2.6 kernels need HZ=100 and broken Fedora needs RDTSC emulation.