On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:43 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 21:47 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I suppose I should have CCd the ARM kernel maints! I'm not sure if any > > of you guys are actually especially interested in server class ARM > > though? > > > > Any objections to my pushing this? > > Keeping kernel-wedge happy (not complaining about missing modules) > requires making more (all in fact) NIC modules options, like the below. > > Does this make sense? I don't know what most of these are. > > I don't know if any of the platforms which are supported by armmp have > any of these or if any have e.g. a PCI slot which might make them an > option. If any do have a PCI slot then I'd expect them to also have an > onboard NIC, which is the minimum we would need to support for D-I > purposes. > > Is a blanket "all NICs are optional" a good rule?
No, I don't think so. The common nic-modules list is appropriate for configurations where PCI is enabled. Configurations without PCI should have their own lists. But why does armmp *not* have CONFIG_PCI=y? The Marvell Armada 370 and XP have PCI Express 2.0 interfaces. You can bring them out to slots (use <http://cogcomp.com/csb_csb1726.htm> plus <http://cogcomp.com/csb_csb1701.htm>) so any standard PCIe card could be connected. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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