Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261235AbVAGA2d (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:28:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261216AbVAGA0V (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:26:21 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54972 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261235AbVAGAUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:20:40 -0500 Subject: Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options From: Alan Cox To: Andrey Melnikoff Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <41D5D206.1040107@mathematica.scientia.net> <1104676209.15004.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1105025417.17176.222.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105053370.17176.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:16:11 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 23 On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 22:40, Andrey Melnikoff wrote: > > 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. And the cost to you is .. zero. > > 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. And lots of people run old motherboards. The base kernel configuration by default is a mix between "things everyone wants, things defaulting on for safety reasons and linus computer" Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/