Re: [PATCH 4/6] [POWERPC] allow pSeries to build without CONFIG_PCI

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 15:07 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Sunday 04 March 2007 07:04:44 Stephen Rothwell wrote:

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 config PCI
        bool "PCI support" if 40x || CPM2 || PPC_83xx || PPC_85xx || PPC_86xx \ 
-               || PPC_MPC52xx || (EMBEDDED && PPC_ISERIES) || MPC7448HPC2 || PPC_PS3 
+               || PPC_MPC52xx || (EMBEDDED &&  (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_ISERIES)) \ 
+               || MPC7448HPC2 || PPC_PS3 

This may be a dumb question, but system would you want to run a pSeries
kernel without PCI on? Is this just for build tests, or is there an
actual application for this?

When running in an LPAR, it's fairly common to have no PCI devices, and
it's thus possible to imagine somebody wanting to build something
without PCI.

I dislike the giant conditional though.

Ben.