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From: Andrey Melnikoff <temnota+news@kmv.ru>
Subject: Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:40:49 +0300
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mer, 2005-01-05 at 18:58, Andrey Melnikoff wrote:
> > > > At least the second of those two seems to cause some little slowdown 
> > > > ("This may slow disk throughput by a few percent, but at least things 
> > > They only trigger for the affected chipsets
> > But enabled by default. Maybe disable it by default ? Or make depend with 
> > CONFIG_M586 || CONFIG_M586TSC || CONFIG_M586MMX ?

> They should be enabled by default. 
Why? This is really _OLD_ and _BUGGY_ chips. As I see in google - it used 
in Asustek Pentium MB PCI/I-P54SP4 and some Intel mb for Pentium with
Neptune chipsets. All of this MB - for classic Pentium 75/90/100MHz. 

> That makes it safer for default compiles, and their code size is 
> close to if not nil because it can all be __devinit or __init
At this time, no modern MB use this buggy chipsets.

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