linux-kernel - Re: Make CONFIG_ARP=m under x86

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Message-ID: <20080419111038.34d0dfbd@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:10:38 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, airlied@...ux.ie,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_ARP=m under x86_64

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:21:44 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:

> 
> The way it is written, CONFIG_AGP is always y for x86_64 - not so
> nice when you want to use nvagp instead which requries agpgart to be 
> unloadable.

where's the source code for nvagp? what does it do that normal agp does not do?
Also.. running without agp on x86-64 (heck on x86) tends to be rather unpleasant wrt resource allocations..

So I don't think this patch is a good idea at all..

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