Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:23:55 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
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        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] x86: add kconfig options for newer 64-bit processors
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> By this same logic though, none of the x86 processor tuning options
> currently in the kernel should have been put in in the first place
> (and, taking it to an extreme, should in fact be removed).

Some of them make sense like MATOM as Atom supports a different subset
of x86 insns, MOVBE being one example. And there's no need to touch them
as unnecessary code churn is something we don't do.
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