Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 fixes | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:43:31 +0200 |
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:22:24 -0700 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> >> The "ideal" way to do any of this would probably to have checkboxes >> for all the CPUs you want to support and then a drop-down box for the >> CPU to optimize for. However, the combinatorics of that would be >> horrible, and it would be very unlikely we would avoid bugs. > > the ideal case would be "support them all"
Support all from the last 10 years (ok excluding legacy models that just shipped forever like 486). I think that's quite reasonable to do and worked for a long time.
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com
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