This patch makes it possible to select the hugetlbfs page size at boot-time,
rather than at compile-time.  We believe we have resolved all the remaining
issues.  All critical speed path has been taken care of, i.e., vhpt handler
and context switch.  There should be no performance penalty with this dynamic
hugetlb page size feature.

We would like to thank Jack Steiner for his initiative on this feature
and his initial cool working patch.

This patch provides access to the cyclone time source found on IBM EXA
based systems (x450 and x455). This is needed on multi-node systems
where the CPU ITCs are not synchronized, causing possible time
inconsistencies.

This release fixes one last minor think-o and ran overnight without any
time inconsistencies (when used in conjunction w/ the
time-interpolator-fix_A0 patch).

As a bonus: cris, h8300, m68k and sparc can use CONFIG_HOTPLUG now.

ia64 needs to include i2c by hand

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

The 2.6 Kconfig language allows to set the range for integer questions.

The patch below adds a range line on all architectures that have a
NR_CPUS question except ia64.

The help text on ia64 didn't suggest any values. Could someone tell the 
correct values for ia64 (and if it's only a minimum value of 2)?

Fix system type selection to workaround menuconfig bug (select "HP",
get "HP-simulator").

From: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>

Attached is a patch that enables EFI boot-up support in ia32 kernels.

In order to continue to determine whether the kernel should initialize using
EFI tables, I've temporarily added a check on the LOADER_TYPE boot parameter.
 Although I haven't requested that elilo be assigned an id for this yet, I've
used this to determine whether the kernel should use the EFI initialization
path as well as a check to see if the EFI_SYSTAB boot parameter contains
anything.  If someone has a better suggestion for determining this, I'm
open...

This patch also uses the existing ioremapping functions to map the efi tables
into kernel virtual address space.  I've added an option such that I could
use Dave Hansen's boot_ioremap() before paging_init().  After paging_init, I
then remap the efi memmap using bt_ioremap for use later.  This has
eliminated the need for several functions...thanks for the suggestions and
thanks for your help Dave.  Still this could use a look-see.

Forward port the recent changes to pal.h, sal.h, mca.h, salinfo.c and
mca.c from 2.4.23-rc2 to 2.6.0-test9.

This converts 2.6 to use salinfo instead of printing CMC/CPE/MCA/INIT
records in the kernel.  It makes the two kernel versions as close
together as possible.

This forces the granule size to 16MB for HP zx1 and generic
kernels.  HP sx1000 machines require this.

	atomic_dec_and_lock().  Actually, this could be the generic
	version for any platform that has cmpxchg().

Make sure that generic kernels actually build by forcing on the
necessary options.  With this patch I was able to build a generic kernel
out of the to-linus-2.5 tree.

This patch fixes the combination of CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM and
CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP so that generic kernels will work on all ia64
platforms, including sn2, and also makes sn2 specific kernels work
(which I think is a first).

I've cleaned this patch up heavily based on feedback from yourself,
Christoph and others.  I've tested sn2, zx1, and dig (thanks Xavier!)
specific configurations, as well as a generic configuration that allows
the same binary to boot on zx1, dig, and sn2.

At present you can set CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE and not CONFIG_HUGETLBFS, which
give the kernel low-level hugepage support, but no userspace API with which
to access it.

And with the recent hugetlbfs-accounting fix, the low-level code needs
functions which are in hugetlbfs, so CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n,
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y doesn't even link.

So we flip things around: CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is set if CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is
set and CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is unset if CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is unset.  The
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE option hence disappears from the per-arch configuration
menus.

	by Jesse Barnes.

This adds CONFIG_64BIT to allow us to disable non-64-bit safe drivers on
64-bit platforms and converts the I2O driver to use it.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

Remove CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT: the ability to present /proc/kcore in a.out
format.

I've checked with various arch maintainers.  It won't be missed.

CONFIG_PM is set without a menu entry to turn it on/off.

I have revised the oprofile patch for ia64 to provide just the basic
timer interrupt mechanism to avoid interferring with the perfmon 2.0
support. I have verified the oprofile ia64 patch applies cleanly and
build a working kernel with the 2.6.0-test4 kernel and the
linux-2.6.0-test4-ia64-030826.diff.bz2 patch.

More work is required to get oprofile to work with the perfmon 2.0.
However, the patch as it is currently implements should not cause
problems for the perfom 2.0 support.

Currently the generic kernel won't build if you turn off NUMA
support.  Seems discontig support is too entangled with NUMA
support to live without it.  This patch makes it behave a bit
more friendly.

Allows all architectures to simply include the sound/Kconfig file.
Now somebody can finally update the comment for CONFIG_SOUND ;-).

From: Diego Calleja Garcia <diegocg@teleline.es>

Move CONFIG_KALLSYMS out of the arch directory and into init/.

It defaults to "on" unless the user explicitly turns it off in the
"embedded systems" menu.

This patch moves all the duplicated cdrom Kconfig bits from arch/*/Kconfig
to drivers/cdrom/Kconfig

Move all the SCSI Kconfig bits from arch/*/Kconfig into driver/scsi/Kconfig.
Also add notes about FireWire & USB.

When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is set to Y, -g will be added to CFLAGS.
Several architectures already put -g in CFLAGS, often via a patch
to the top-level makefile.
This option is put in the kernel hacking menu, guarded by CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.

Added CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO in Kconfig for the architectures that
already had CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL

  Add back IDE configuration.

This patch creates fs/Kconfig.binfmt and converts all architectures to
use it.  I took the opportunity to spruce up the a.out help text for
the new millennium.

Patch by Matthew Wilcox.

Allows all architectures to simply include the drivers/ide/Kconfig file.

      Remove CONFIG_FSYS option (it's the default now).
      Consolidate the various instruction patching routines into
      a single file (patch.c).

I found the attached patch necessary to allow compressed file
systems to be used under the simulator.  lib/Kconfig is needed to
configure in the zlib routines.