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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:38:03PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>...
> GOOD_APIC is Intel P5MMX, Intel P6 and above, and AMD K7 and above.
> Nothing else has GOOD_APIC: P5 Classic because of the bug, and the
> rest because they don't have local APIC at all.

Ah, thanks for this information.

Considering this, I can simply do the following in my proposal of 
offering every CPU type to the user?

config X86_BAD_APIC
	bool
	depends on CPU_586TSC
	default y


> /Mikael

cu
Adrian

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