Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:43:08 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata |
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> I still like the idea of a single config variable to remove all special > case code for non-configured CPUs, call it NO_BLOAT or MINIMALIST_KERNEL > or EMBEDDED_HELPER as you will. The embedded folks would then have a good > handle to do the work and identify sections to be so identified.
Removing the code for non-configured CPUs should be the default. It's common sense - if you configure a kernel to support Athlons only, why have PIV workarounds in there, unless you're actually debugging a kernel problem?
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