From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] one line fix in arch/i386/Kconfig
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 06:32:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307223202.9244.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 22:03, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > If I say that my cpu is not a PentiumIV why
> > he bothers me about "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." ?
> >
> > This patch show that option only if you select that kind of CPU.
> >
> > Is it correct ? Does it makes sense ?
>
> We want people to be able to build a kernel which will run on many systems
> but still use CPU specific features.
Ah... ok I see the point, I could compile a kernel with PIII optimizations
and then run it on a PIV.
But it is a complication in the configuration process.
Do we agree on that ?
How about a config entry:
"Leave only the option related to the CPU I selected" ?
Ciao,
Paolo
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2003-03-07 22:32 Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2003-03-07 23:10 ` [RFC] one line fix in arch/i386/Kconfig H. Peter Anvin
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2003-03-07 22:03 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2003-03-07 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-07 23:18 ` Alan Cox
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