Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:26:29 +0200 | From | Robert Schwebel <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection |
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:04:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > ELAN is "like a PC", Geode is a PC, to software. You can run a generic > 386/486/586/586+MMX kernel on a Geode CPU. The Geode support just picks > the right compile options and our setup code turns on some handy CPU > features we can use
Hmm, I'm not so sure. I've not much experience with Geode yet, but from my first RTAI tests it surely has several problems which might require an #ifdef CONFIG_MGEODE or something similar. As long as this is possible everything's ok with me ;)
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