On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 05:10:21 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:41:10 +0000 Peter Ruskin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Despite what Ciaran said, if you try to emerge sparc-dev-sources on an
> | x86 arch you'll come up against a nasty block.
> 
> Only if you have the version of pciutils that doesn't work properly with
> 2.6.x kernels :) Chances are you won't have noticed on x86 anyway,
> because you won't have PCI domain support (someone's now gonna post a
> link to an x86 box with PCI domains, no doubt...), but it's a *lot*
> better to use the sysfs interface even if the old procfs one still
> appears to work.
> 
> Just emerge >=sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r1 if you're getting blocks. It's
> a good idea to do this if you're running *any* 2.6.x kernel on a PCI
> box.
> 

If it's such a good idea, why is it marked ~x86?


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