Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection

[Robert Schwebel]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:04:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> ELAN is "like a PC", Geode is a PC, to software. You can run a generic
> 386/486/586/586+MMX kernel on a Geode CPU. The Geode support just picks
> the right compile options and our setup code turns on some handy CPU
> features we can use

Hmm, I'm not so sure. I've not much experience with Geode yet, but from
my first RTAI tests it surely has several problems which might require
an #ifdef CONFIG_MGEODE or something similar. As long as this is
possible everything's ok with me ;)

Robert
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