Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 22:40, Andrey Melnikoff wrote:
> > They should be enabled by default. 
> Why? This is really _OLD_ and _BUGGY_ chips. As I see in google - it used 
> in Asustek Pentium MB PCI/I-P54SP4 and some Intel mb for Pentium with
> Neptune chipsets. All of this MB - for classic Pentium 75/90/100MHz. 

And the cost to you is .. zero.

> > That makes it safer for default compiles, and their code size is 
> > close to if not nil because it can all be __devinit or __init
> At this time, no modern MB use this buggy chipsets.

And lots of people run old motherboards. The base kernel configuration
by default is a mix between "things everyone wants, things defaulting on
for safety reasons and linus computer"

Alan

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