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

From: John Bradford
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 03:45:17 EST


> > Nothing will change, except that if you want to support all CPUs, you
> > have to select all CPUs instead of 386.
>
> This is incorrect. You don't want to change the behavior that people
> are relying on.

Does it matter over a major version change? Surely as long as the
help text is sufficiently updated it's OK? Loads of other things have
subtly changed...

John.
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