Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:48:25 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [58/58] x86: remove support for the Rise CPU |
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:45:29AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Googling for the printk string "CPU: Rise iDragon" didn't find any dmesg > > available online. > > > > If it turns out that against all expectations there are actually users > > reverting this patch would be easy. > > > > This patch will make the kernel images smaller by a few bytes for all > > i386 users. > > Why bother. Its a tiny tiny amount of code and it requires no maintenance > so it achieves nothing by leaving it alone and risks (slight I admit) > breaking someones box.
- It's not only code, it also bloats everyone's kernel image. - All it did was to fiddle with capabilities - if any computer with a Rise cpu running Linux actually exists it should still work. - It's highly unlikely that we had any user of this code.
> Alan
cu Adrian
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