Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:38:03 +0200 (MEST) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:07:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: >[ >My questions might sound silly - I simply don't have the x86 >knowledge, but I want to get the dependencies as good as possible. >] > >All Cyrix/VIA/IDT/Transmeta processors have a working APIC?
None of them do.
>What about the original 386?
Nope.
>Then I can simply change it in my patch to > >config X86_GOOD_APIC > bool > depends on !CPU_586TSC > default y
GOOD_APIC is Intel P5MMX, Intel P6 and above, and AMD K7 and above. Nothing else has GOOD_APIC: P5 Classic because of the bug, and the rest because they don't have local APIC at all.
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