Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:16:11 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 22:40, Andrey Melnikoff wrote: > > They should be enabled by default. > Why? This is really _OLD_ and _BUGGY_ chips. As I see in google - it used > in Asustek Pentium MB PCI/I-P54SP4 and some Intel mb for Pentium with > Neptune chipsets. All of this MB - for classic Pentium 75/90/100MHz.
And the cost to you is .. zero.
> > That makes it safer for default compiles, and their code size is > > close to if not nil because it can all be __devinit or __init > At this time, no modern MB use this buggy chipsets.
And lots of people run old motherboards. The base kernel configuration by default is a mix between "things everyone wants, things defaulting on for safety reasons and linus computer"
Alan
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