Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263417AbTIGSGV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:06:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263418AbTIGSGV (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:06:21 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:48875 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263417AbTIGSGU (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:06:20 -0400 Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection From: Alan Cox To: Robert Schwebel Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rusty Russell , Russell King In-Reply-To: <20030907174834.GA482@pengutronix.de> References: <20030907112813.GQ14436@fs.tum.de> <20030907124251.GC5460@pengutronix.de> <20030907130034.GT14436@fs.tum.de> <1062955895.16972.13.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030907174834.GA482@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1062957851.16964.42.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-4) Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:04:12 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 15 On Sul, 2003-09-07 at 18:48, Robert Schwebel wrote: > It seems to be similar to the Elan: the core is "just another PC", but > in several places you need to know that you have a Geode so that you can > provide the right tweaks and fixes. ELAN is "like a PC", Geode is a PC, to software. You can run a generic 386/486/586/586+MMX kernel on a Geode CPU. The Geode support just picks the right compile options and our setup code turns on some handy CPU features we can use - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/