Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:40:07 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       oliver.pntr@gmail.com, patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:23:25 -0400 Dave Jones wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:57:24AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
>  > > This seems like yet another list that will need to be perpetually
>  > > kept up to date, and given 99% of users don't know the codename
>  > > of their core, just the marketing name, I question its value.
>  > 
>  > As a bare minimum requirement the list presented here shall use same
>  > names as used in /proc/cpuinfo
>  > 
>  > On this box I read:
>  > 
>  > vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
>  > model name	: Pentium III (Coppermine)
> 
> There are *dozens* of possible entries here, and always new ones.
> The list will become so cumbersome that searching for the name
> through the help text of each possible option will become a
> really boring task, that I doubt anyone will seriously do.

Yep.  help text:  see www.wikipedia.org :)

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~Randy
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