The PPC Install guide should include "make defconfig" before configuring the kernel. This command will add defaults which should help reduce the confusion during installation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 71547 [details, diff] defconfig patch Two part patch, the first is for a mangling of the online handbook, I'm not sure how that happened, the second is for the Kernel config issue. The second part should be applied to the 2005.1 handbook as well. If the docs team could please review this, I'd appreciate it. :) Thanks in advance.
Why PPC only? The first time your run `make menuconfig`, the defconfig is used by default because there's nothing else available, no previous .config, nada, zilch. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112749#c8
For some reason this isn't working on PPC, typing make menuconfig without make defconfig doesn't use the correct default configuration and the user ends up with an almost completely blank configuration which is causing a lot of extra work for the PPC team (telling people over and over to enable Unix Sockets or IDE Disk support get's old fast). I haven't had a chance to look into why this is happening, but this was a temporary workaround for now.
Fixed.
