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SubjectRe: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot.
Is there any reason not to handle this the same way we handle it with
the frame buffer stuff?

Zephaniah E, Hull.
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:31:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
<snip>
> Note that I have rewritten the config.in file to essentially do this, and
> now the i386/etc choices are really just shorthands for various
> combinations of options.
>
> I agree that the most flexible thing is to make each option an option in
> itself, but quite frankly, it's way too confusing to people that don't
> intimately know their machine. Think of somebody that knows he has a
> Celeron chip, but doesn't know much else. At least there is a chance in
> hell that he would select "Pentium Pro", but there is just _no_ way that
> he can sanely answer a few questions like
>
>  - do you hav a working WP bit in supervisor mode?
> - do you have a time stamp counter that works?
> - does you machine have a local APIC that doesn't need the
> read-before-write workaround?
>
> And that's basically why there is the choice according to machine type
> rather than according to each possible feature.
>
> Linus
>
>
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