Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261243AbTIGS0d (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:26:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263411AbTIGS0d (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:26:33 -0400 Received: from amalthea.dnx.de ([193.108.181.146]:53655 "EHLO amalthea.dnx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261243AbTIGS0b (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:26:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:26:29 +0200 From: Robert Schwebel To: Alan Cox Cc: Robert Schwebel , Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rusty Russell , Russell King Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection Message-ID: <20030907182628.GC482@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> <1062957851.16964.42.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1062957851.16964.42.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (----) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19w4Er-0003wK-00*L1YqsD8zqtI* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 23 On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:04:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 Hmm, I'm not so sure. I've not much experience with Geode yet, but from my first RTAI tests it surely has several problems which might require an #ifdef CONFIG_MGEODE or something similar. As long as this is possible everything's ok with me ;) Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hornemannstra?e 12, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-28619-0 | Fax: +49-5121-28619-4 - 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/