Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]

[Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:29, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:34:23AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
>  > One idea that comes to mind is putting the power management config
>  > options in a "Power Management" section
>
> *nod* sounds sensible 8)
>
>  > then PNPBIOS in with the other PnP stuff, and
>  > so on (read: don't know were to put MPS yet, and don't know what $PIR is
>  > :)
>
> It's an interrupt routing table.
>
> MPS and interrupt routing are both CPU related features, so the best
> place we currently have is under the CPU menu imho.
Is it fundamentally different _functionality_ to the stuff that is in "Plug 
and Play configuration" (which makes devices automatically get the right 
itnerrupts)?  [ Ignore implementation for a second - we can always solve this 
with another layer of abstraction. :-]

Of course, putting all this into the CPU menu (which is obviously a per-arch 
config.in change) would make drivers/arch/acpi/Config.in look a lot cleaner.

I'll try to work with Andy Grover off-list with this, and come up with an 
agreed position.

Rusty: This is starting to get a little non-trivial. Please drop the two 
patches I've sent. I'll get back to you later.

Brad
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