On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 08:29 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
cc'ing kernel-fedora
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:26:13PM -0500, M Whitehead wrote:
> Don,
> I'm trying compile a F14 2.3.37-2 kernel with some support for old
> hardware. I'm trying to re-enable CONFIG_ISA and a few old ethernet
> cards such as CONFIG_EL2. Putting them into config-local doesn't seem
> to be turning them back on.
>
> Do you know what dependency I might have missed?
I would need to see your .config to see what you are doing wrong, but it
works for me over here. CONFIG_ISA seems to be enabled by default on
Fedora in the git tree so you shouldn't have to do anything there.
Cheers,
Don
I figured it out.
On my x86_64 system, I had to expressly say "--target=i686" for my
rpmbuild. I think x86_64 by _assumption_ cannot have an ISA bus, so it
forces CONFIG_ISA to false.
Oddly, my Adek MB-P4BWA motherboard with Q6600 Core 2 Quadcore is an
(admittedly rare) x86_64 system with two ISA slots.....
And why would you ever need more that 640k memory in a computer? :-)
- Matthew