From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:47:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063478871.9064.3.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030913182159.GA10047@gtf.org>
On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 19:21, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If you know that you're only booting on a 486, why include all the junk
> needed solely for later processors?
Because its a nightmare to provide a billion CPU specific kernels, a set
of foo and higher kernels and a "generic kernel", then do it for each
platform 2.6 supports for x86, then test it.
The submission already looks like something out of a puzzle book
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 12:51 Adrian Bunk
2003-09-13 14:20 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-13 17:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-13 16:11 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-13 16:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-13 17:21 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-13 18:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-13 18:35 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-13 21:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-13 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 18:37 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-13 18:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 20:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 22:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-13 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 18:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2003-09-14 8:55 John Bradford
2003-09-14 8:52 John Bradford
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2003-09-14 0:07 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-14 0:10 ` David Lang
2003-09-13 11:04 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13 11:02 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13 11:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12 21:38 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-12 23:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-16 12:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-09-12 20:09 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-12 22:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 21:47 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-07 21:46 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-07 21:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 16:47 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-07 17:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-07 18:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 8:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-09-08 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-10 14:17 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-11 6:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-11 11:04 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-12 20:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-11 12:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-09-12 19:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-16 12:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-09-11 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 10:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 17:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 11:28 Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 11:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-09-07 13:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 13:48 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-09-07 12:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-09-07 12:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 12:42 ` Robert Schwebel
2003-09-07 13:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-07 13:14 ` Robert Schwebel
2003-09-08 15:26 ` Tom Rini
2003-09-07 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-07 17:48 ` Robert Schwebel
2003-09-07 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-07 18:26 ` Robert Schwebel
2003-09-07 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-07 19:17 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-07 17:25 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-11 6:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-08 0:46 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-08 14:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-09 1:11 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-11 6:22 ` Adrian Bunk
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