From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: cliffw@osdl.org, bunk@fs.tum.de, piggin@cyberone.com.au,
mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/4] better i386 CPU selection
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:01:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116160133.5af17a6a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0401161425110.31018@chaos>
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, cliff white wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:52:32 +0100
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Changes:
>
> > > - AMD Elan is a different subarch, you can't configure a kernel that
> > > runs on both the AMD Elan and other i386 CPUs
>
> NO! NO! This prevents development of an AMD embeded system on an
> "ordinary" machine like this one (Pentium IV). The fact that the
> timer runs at a different speed means nothing, one just sets the
> workstation time every day. Please do NOT do this. It prevents
> important usage.
Can't you just configure it for some lower denominator such as 386?
I must say that I'm a bit wobbly about Adrian's recent patches, simply
because of the overall intrusiveness and conceptual changes which they
introduce.
Remind me again, what did they buy us?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-17 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-06 5:48 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-06 6:33 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Nick Piggin
2004-01-06 6:46 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-06 7:08 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Nick Piggin
2004-01-10 0:46 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 0:50 ` [0/4] better i386 CPU selection Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 0:52 ` [1/4] " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 11:04 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-01-11 3:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-14 20:49 ` [-mm patch] " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-16 19:15 ` [1/4] " cliff white
2004-01-16 19:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-17 0:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-17 2:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-19 15:14 ` John Stoffel
2004-01-19 23:42 ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-17 2:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-17 9:13 ` Robert Schwebel
2004-01-20 22:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-20 22:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-20 22:47 ` George Anzinger
2004-01-17 10:01 ` aeriksson
2004-01-10 0:57 ` [2/4] move "struct movsl_mask movsl_mask" to usercopy.c Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 0:57 ` [3/4] proof of concept: make arch/i386/kernel/cpu/Makefile CPU specific Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 0:58 ` [4/4] proof of concept: make arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/Makefile " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 22:14 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-12 2:20 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Nick Piggin
2004-01-07 14:06 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 18:50 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-07 19:27 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-01-07 20:10 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-07 21:41 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Trond Myklebust
2004-01-07 21:10 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 21:30 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
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