Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-29 Thread Dennis
At 05:35 PM 03/28/2001, Steve VanDevender wrote: >Dennis writes: > > I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing > the > > choices. > >Linux kernel configuration isn't intuitive. menuconfig isn't there to >handhold newbies through the process. Arguing that something

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Steve VanDevender
Dennis writes: > I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing the > choices. Linux kernel configuration isn't intuitive. menuconfig isn't there to handhold newbies through the process. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Dennis
At 03:36 PM 03/28/2001, you wrote: >On Wednesday 28 March 2001 22:17, Dennis wrote: > > its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor > > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that > > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug?

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Joel Jaeggli
note also smp is enabled by default... While that's won't break most boxes it will prevent some other things like apm from working... You sorta got to pick your battles... no default kernel config is gonna work for everyone. joelja On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Brad Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Dennis
At 04:07 PM 03/28/2001, Doug McNaught wrote: >Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I also find it interesting that the default at kernel.org wont boot on a > > Pentium...generic should be the default. > >The default config is what boots on Linus' machine. Once you realise >that your life get

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Brad Johnson
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:07:23PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: > Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I also find it interesting that the default at kernel.org wont boot on a > > Pentium...generic should be the default. > > The default config is what boots on Linus' machine. Once you realis

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Doug McNaught
Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also find it interesting that the default at kernel.org wont boot on a > Pentium...generic should be the default. The default config is what boots on Linus' machine. Once you realise that your life get a lot easier. ;) -Doug - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Dennis Noordsij
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 22:17, Dennis wrote: > its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug? > > Dennis You pick the lowest common den

RE: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Dennis
At 02:30 PM 03/28/2001, Michel Wilson wrote: > > its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor > > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that > > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug? > > > > Dennis > >Use i386 to make a ge

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
> its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug? The generic kernel type is '386'. We used to simply say each kernel runs on that cpu an

RE: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-28 Thread Michel Wilson
> its seems that "make menuconfig" only allows you to select 1 processor > type. it seems impossible that you cant build a generic kernel that > supports different processors. Its this just a menuconfig bug? > > Dennis Use i386 to make a generic kernel, this option will make it work on all Intel