Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:47:52 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 19:21, Jeff Garzik wrote: > If you know that you're only booting on a 486, why include all the junk > needed solely for later processors?
Because its a nightmare to provide a billion CPU specific kernels, a set of foo and higher kernels and a "generic kernel", then do it for each platform 2.6 supports for x86, then test it.
The submission already looks like something out of a puzzle book
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