Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:13:50 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection |
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:02:36PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:23:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > >Considering this, I can simply do the following in my proposal of > >offering every CPU type to the user? > > > >config X86_BAD_APIC > > bool > > depends on CPU_586TSC > > default y > > That depends on your semantics for CPU_586TSC. > If it is required for support of pre-MMX P5s, then yes. > With the current semantics, where a CPU choice simply > sets a lower bound, then no.
The intention of my "better i386 CPU selection" patch is that you select all CPUs you want to support.
The semantics is that e.g. CPU_486 doesn't enable support for Pentiums.
> /Mikael
cu Adrian
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