Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Marcus Berglund" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel cpu selection + other platforms? | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:01:52 PDT |
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>On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Richard A. Soderberg wrote: > >> Well, with this, we could make an entire Processor toplevel category, then >> categorize it by something arbitrary (x86, DEC, whatever)... under x86, put: >> >> Intel, AMD, IBM, Cyrix. or 386, 486, Pentium, PPro, PII. >> >> Then list each processor for that company and it's associated optimizations >> and/or bugfixes... I'm not dealing with non-intel processors just yet.. >> Don't know enough about them. > >Why? It is pretty easy to recognise all x86 varieties (other than the >early 486 clones) at run time and simply Do The Right Thing without >asking the user daft questions about whether they have microcode >bug #564 or working frozzle optimizations. Most users won't even >know what is under their CPU fan never mind what the hell you're >talking about! > > Mike
Maybe we should start splitting the kernel into two configurations, Simple End User (there is a group with this name), and Advanced user, this way everyone gets what they want (well mostly).
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