Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata | Date | 14 Sep 2003 23:49:30 GMT |
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In article <20030912182216.GK27368@fs.tum.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: [...]
| But even CONFIG_X86_GENERIC doesn't do what you expect. A kernel | compiled for Athlon wouldn't run on a Pentium 4 even with | CONFIG_X86_GENERIC. | | Quoting arch/i386/Kconfig in -test5: | | <-- snip --> | | config X86_USE_3DNOW | bool | depends on MCYRIXIII || MK7 | default y | | <-- snip --> | | My patch in the mail | | RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection | | tries to solve these problem with a different approach (the user selects | all CPUs he wants to support).
If you have managed to work around all the conflicting capabilities without leaving the kernel way suboptimal on some, I salute your better solution. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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