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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:14:15 -0500
From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, root@chaos.analogic.com, cliffw@osdl.org,
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Subject: Re: [1/4] better i386 CPU selection
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>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:

Adrian> The main effect is that better-i386-cpu-selection.patch makes
Adrian> it easier for people who configure kernels that should work on
Adrian> different CPU types. A user (= person compiling his own
Adrian> kernel) does no longer need any deeper knowledge when
Adrian> e.g. configuring a kernel that should run on both an Athlon
Adrian> and a Pentium 4 - he simply selects all CPUs he wants to
Adrian> support in his kernel.

So a user who will only Run this kernel on a PIII for example, doesn't
need to select *any* other kernels at all?  I think the Kconfig help
screens need to be redone to make this clear.

I enabled all the sub-processors because I wanted to make sure my
kernel would boot no matter what.  It seems like I don't need that any
more, right? 

John
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