whacked out 2.2.18preX - last gasp

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:03:43PM -0500, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:

> 	ERROR - Attempting to write value for
> 	unconfigured variable (CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE).
>
> when using make xconfig. I can't see how this could be related, but it is true.

xconfig is buggy sometimes.  Try make oldconfig afterwards, it'll prompt for
anything which didn't get set by xconfig.

> It's frankly hard at this point to buy that one of my PCI devices is
> walking over the kernel. Or if it is, it looks like the end of the
> Linux line for my PowerTowerPro with the 2940 card. I think this is
> either a bug in the aic7xxx driver that has been exposed by 2.2.18
> changes (highly doubtful, there are too many 2940s out there for it
> to have been missed), or a linux-pmac bug. I just don't know enough
> yet to prove it, much less find it.

Hmm.  2.2.18pre21 from linuxppc_2_2 bk works on my G4/Yikes! with a 2940UW
in it.  What compiler are you using?

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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