Re: [PATCH] x86-64 build fix

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:59:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  > I don't think Jeff has sent us an example .config, but I hit this a few
>  > times too, before we fixed it.  I think this was all triggered by a Kconfig
>  > change in the AGP tree, so you wouldn't have seen it, but -mm did.
> 
> Not guilty your honour.
> See my mail..
> Subject: Re: intelfb: enable on x86_64
> 
> It got busted due to INTEL_FB becoming available on x86-64, and it doing
> select AGP which if INTEL_FB was =m turned CONFIG_AGP=y into CONFIG_AGP=m
> for who-knows-why reason.  This busts the IOMMU code which expects the AGP
> code to be =y or =n

The select overrides the default (it actually overrides pretty much 
everything, that's why one should be careful with it).

bye, Roman
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