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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:42:17 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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To: John Stoffel <stoffel@lucent.com>
CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [1/4] better i386 CPU selection
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John Stoffel wrote:

>>>>>>"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? 
>

At the top of the "Processor support" menu there is the line
"Select all processors your kernel should support". That sums
it up pretty well.

I might get your point better if you sent a patch.


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