Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jan 1999 08:07:09 -0500 | From | kernel@whitesta ... | Subject | Re: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot. |
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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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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