Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:46:19 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 fixes |
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:22:24 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > The "ideal" way to do any of this would probably to have checkboxes > for all the CPUs you want to support and then a drop-down box for the > CPU to optimize for. However, the combinatorics of that would be > horrible, and it would be very unlikely we would avoid bugs.
the ideal case would be "support them all"
the second-most ideal case would be "support all as of <year>" I suppose
a third one for advanced users not distros would be "support only <vendor>" since that would be the biggest part of code to drop
between models of the same vendor.. not too much to win there.
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