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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.3-rc3-mm1
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>
> > - Dropped the x86 CPU-type selection patches
> 
>  Was there a problem with this? Seems like a good start to allow cleaning 
>  up some "but I don't have that CPU" things which embedded and tiny 
>  systems really would like to eliminate.

I think it was a good change, and was appropriate to 2.5.x.  But for 2.6.x
the benefit didn't seem to justify the depth of the change.