Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Re: Kernel 2.4 CPU Arch issues] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Jul 2003 01:00:05 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-07-21 at 00:29, William M. Quarles wrote: > Well, you separated the Pentium and Pentium-MMX. It's the exact same > difference between Pentium Pro and Pentium-II: MMX technology. That's > the point.
This makes no difference to the kernel. Splitting PPro would only make sense for one reason. The Pentium Pro needs store barriers on spin_unlock and friends, the PII and later do not. However if this was done you'd also want to check for PPro boots with a PII kernel and panic which isn't currently done
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