From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262400AbTINX6c (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:58:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262402AbTINX6c (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:58:32 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:38669 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262400AbTINX6a (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:58:30 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata Date: 14 Sep 2003 23:49:30 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <99F2150714F93F448942F9A9F112634C0638B196@txexmtae.amd.com> <20030912195606.24e73086.ak@suse.de> <3F62098F.9030300@pobox.com> <20030912182216.GK27368@fs.tum.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1063583370 16083 192.168.12.62 (14 Sep 2003 23:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20030912182216.GK27368@fs.tum.de>, Adrian Bunk 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 CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.