Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 19:21, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If you know that you're only booting on a 486, why include all the junk
> needed solely for later processors?

Because its a nightmare to provide a billion CPU specific kernels, a set
of foo and higher kernels and a "generic kernel", then do it for each
platform 2.6 supports for x86, then test it.

The submission already looks like something out of a puzzle book

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