My impression is that it's currently easy to accidentially activate the
Voyager support in 2.5.47 by typing once too often "y" which results in
a kernel that doesn't boot on a PC. The patch below is a suggestion to
to create a "Subarchitecture" choice.
The wording might not be perfect and it might make sense to add other
subarchs there, too. I'm interested in comments whether this is a good
idea or whether there are reasons why this is a bad idea.
TIA
Adrian
--- linux-2.5.47-full/arch/i386/Kconfig.old 2002-11-16 21:36:44.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.5.47-full/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-16 22:02:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -39,7 +39,33 @@
menu "Processor type and features"
choice
+ prompt "Subarchitecture"
+ default PC
+
+config PC
+ bool "PC"
+ help
+ Choose this option if your computer is a PC.
+
+ Choose this option unless you really know what you are doing.
+
+config VOYAGER
+ bool "Support for the NCR Voyager Architecture"
+ help
+ Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary
+ to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based.
+
+ *** WARNING ***
+
+ If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine,
+ don't choose this option otherwise the kernel you build will not
+ be bootable.
+
+endchoice
+
+choice
prompt "Processor family"
+ depends on PC
default M686
config M386
@@ -980,17 +1006,6 @@
menu "Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)"
-config VOYAGER
- bool "Support for the NCR Voyager Architecture"
- depends on MCA
- help
- Voyager is a MCA based 32 way capable SMP architecture proprietary
- to NCR Corp. Machine classes 345x/35xx/4100/51xx are voyager based.
-
- *** WARNING ***
-
- If you do not specifically know you have a Voyager based machine,
- say N here otherwise the kernel you build will not be bootable.
# Visual Workstation support is utterly broken.
# If you want to see it working mail an VW540 to hch@infradead.org 8)
@@ -1102,8 +1117,12 @@
Otherwise, say N.
config MCA
+ bool
+ depends on VOYAGER
+
+config MCA
bool "MCA support"
- depends on !VISWS
+ depends on !VISWS && !VOYAGER
help
MicroChannel Architecture is found in some IBM PS/2 machines and
laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. See
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