Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261260AbTILUA6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:00:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261823AbTILUA5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:00:57 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:63999 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261260AbTILUAb (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:00:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:00:23 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: Martin Schlemmer , jgarzik@pobox.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, richard.brunner@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata Message-ID: <20030912200022.GO27368@fs.tum.de> References: <3F60837D.7000209@pobox.com> <20030911162634.64438c7d.ak@suse.de> <3F6087FC.7090508@pobox.com> <20030912195606.24e73086.ak@suse.de> <3F62098F.9030300@pobox.com> <20030912182216.GK27368@fs.tum.de> <20030912202851.3529e7e7.ak@suse.de> <1063393505.3371.207.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> <20030912213016.47a4e5de.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030912213016.47a4e5de.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1115 Lines: 34 On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:30:16PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >... > I think it's useful to keep kernels booting everywhere, it makes it a lot easier > to test a single kernel on multiple systems. Different people have different needs: Sometimes you want kernels booting everywhere, e.g. a distribution might want to support all CPUs from an 386 to an Opteron with one kernel for their boot floppies. For a system administrator with only Pentium 3 and Pentum 4 machines support for 386 and Opteron isn't of much worth. In some embedded systems people are happy about every kB their kernel is smaller. > -Andi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/