From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262138AbUESAE2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 20:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263563AbUESAE2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 20:04:28 -0400 Received: from janus.foobazco.org ([198.144.194.226]:9344 "EHLO mail.foobazco.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262138AbUESAE0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 20:04:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:04:25 -0700 From: Keith M Wesolowski To: Jonathan McDowell Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sparc doesn't build without input support / can't turn off VTs Message-ID: <20040519000425.GA7865@foobazco.org> References: <20040518232720.GO5289@earth.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040518232720.GO5289@earth.li> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:27:20AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Tried to build 2.6.6 for my Sparc LX today, which runs headless. Turned > off all the input support and it failed to build - VT support couldn't > be disabled and this needs input support it seems. Correct. Your patch is probably ok, but it doesn't solve the problem the right way. We really need to source the generic configuration files, which would give us CONFIG_EMBEDDED, which in turn would allow disabling VT (and INPUT). I have patches that do virtually all of this for sparc and sparc64; however, there is a great deal of work needed to include all the driver configs before that part can go in. Specifically, every driver needs to have reasonable dependencies, which requires working with the maintainers to verify that the deps I have are right. If you'd like to pick this up and get it done, please reply to me privately and I'll give you what you need. -- Keith M Wesolowski