Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261566AbTILViN (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:38:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261599AbTILViM (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:38:12 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:25014 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261566AbTILViI (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:38:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:38:03 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <200309122138.h8CLc32K007912@harpo.it.uu.se> From: Mikael Pettersson To: bunk@fs.tum.de, macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 31 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:07:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >[ >My questions might sound silly - I simply don't have the x86 >knowledge, but I want to get the dependencies as good as possible. >] > >All Cyrix/VIA/IDT/Transmeta processors have a working APIC? None of them do. >What about the original 386? Nope. >Then I can simply change it in my patch to > >config X86_GOOD_APIC > bool > depends on !CPU_586TSC > default y GOOD_APIC is Intel P5MMX, Intel P6 and above, and AMD K7 and above. Nothing else has GOOD_APIC: P5 Classic because of the bug, and the rest because they don't have local APIC at all. /Mikael - 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/