Re: non-Intel platform hardware support?

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:07:02 +0100 (MET)

>
> Hi,
>
> what kind of hardware can I expect to be able to use on non-Intel platforms?
> (like the ISDN stuff, like the network device drivers, etc.)

A bunch of Intel drivers work on other ports, while the port have their own
drivers as well.
>
> or is there maybe a (non-kernel-tree-destructive?) way to make 'make
> menuconfig' believe it's running on an Alpha (etc.) and show me the
> appropriate selections, so that I can check this out myself?

E.g. make ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig
and so on (ARCH= alpha, arm, i386, m68k, ppc, mips, sparc, sparc64)

Cheers,
Jakub
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