Subject: Re: Pentium M config option for 2.6
From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 11:50, Dave Jones wrote:

> FWIW, I agree with it too on the grounds that its non obvious the optimal
> setting is CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII. This seems cleaner IMO than changing the
> helptext to read...
> 
>  "Pentium II"
>  "Pentium III / Pentium 4M"
>  "Pentium 4"

Oh, very much agreed.  Giving it a separate configure option also opens
the door for easily adding an march=pentiumm whenever the gcc folks get
around to adding that.

> My other mail may have sounded like I objected to the patch per se, I don't.

I did not think that, I thought perhaps that you thought that I objected
:)

	Rob Love

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