Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:00:23 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata |
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:30:16PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >... > I think it's useful to keep kernels booting everywhere, it makes it a lot easier > to test a single kernel on multiple systems.
Different people have different needs:
Sometimes you want kernels booting everywhere, e.g. a distribution might want to support all CPUs from an 386 to an Opteron with one kernel for their boot floppies.
For a system administrator with only Pentium 3 and Pentum 4 machines support for 386 and Opteron isn't of much worth.
In some embedded systems people are happy about every kB their kernel is smaller.
> -Andi
cu Adrian
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