Re: [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jun 09 2011 - 11:23:56 EST


On 06/09/2011 07:41 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
>>
>> Can we make this a depends on instead of select?
>
> Seems weird to me - when you're configuring the kernel, you're more likely
> to know that you want EFI than to remember that that requires relocation.
>

Yes, but "select" is handled very poorly by Kconfig.

-hpa
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