From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:41:04 +0100
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	(Sven-Haegar Koch's message of "Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:29:55 +0100 (CET)")
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Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de> writes:

> But no standard distribution will be made available in a geode special 
> version - not enough machines in the marekt. So I think it is better to 
> be able to use the i686 specific things they already support, like 
> libc6-686 from debian for example.

If it's only libc issue (and maybe of a couple of other packages like
gzip and bzip2), then I think it would be preferable for distributions
to provide a version optimized for Geode, without kernel hacks.
Though I guess the above is not actually the case, is it?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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