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SubjectRe: Kernel cpu selection + other platforms?
Well, with this, we could make an entire Processor toplevel category, then
categorize it by something arbitrary (x86, DEC, whatever)... under x86, put:

Intel, AMD, IBM, Cyrix. or 386, 486, Pentium, PPro, PII.

Then list each processor for that company and it's associated optimizations
and/or bugfixes... I'm not dealing with non-intel processors just yet..
Don't know enough about them.

Richard

At 01:11 PM 7/20/97 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> Why not [for main screen]:
>> Intel -> [386-series] -> math-co support?
>> bugfixes? (they had some :)
>> [486-series] -> math-co support?
>> 486-clone? (eg. 386 with delusions)
>> bugfixes - list of bug patches to include
>> [586-series] -> pentium
>> -> pentium optimizations?
>> 5x86 (486 with delusions)
>> -> 586 optimizations?
>> AMD ????
>> -> ??? optimizations?
>> pentium-MMX (who cares?)
>> -> MMX optimizations?
>> (network speedup :)
>> bugfixes - list of bug patches to include
>> [686-series] -> pentium-pro
>> AMD K6
>> -> K6 optimizations
>> 6x86 (Cyrix, IBM)
>> -> 6x86 optimizations
>> pentium-II
>> bugfixes - list of bug patches to include
>> optimizations - applicable to all
>> (MMX with most?)
>
>Bad bad bad. What if you want to make kernel that runs on 386 and amd
>k6, fixing bugs of both? You probably want checkbox for every bugfix
>in there.
>
> Pavel
>
>--
>I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
>Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
>
>

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