Re: PROBLEM: v2.4.29 won't compile with PCI support disabled

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 07:16:31 EST


Don Guy writes:
> PROBLEM:
>
> Attempts to compile v2.4.29 with PCI support disabled result in the
> following errors:
>
> drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig10x_init_fn':
> drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12cd): undefined reference to
> `pci_siig10x_fn'
> drivers/char/char.o: In function `siig20x_init_fn':
> drivers/char/char.o(.text.init+0x12ed): undefined reference to
> `pci_siig20x_fn'
>
> It has been suggested that enabling PCI support in the kernel will make this
> go away however a) enabling PCI support on a 486 which only has ISA & VLB is
> downright silly, and b) a test run with CONFIG_PCI=y resulted in a plethora
> of other errors.

Presumably this is because of other CONFIG options which are still
enabled but don't work w/o CONFIG_PCI. So please post your .config.

Both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels with CONFIG_PCI=n work Ok(*) on my 486.

/Mikael

(*) 2.6 kernels need HZ=100 and broken Fedora needs RDTSC emulation.
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