Re: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot.
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:16:56 +0100 (CET)
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 01:42:06PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
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> > how about defining the CPU in terms of features internaly and let the
> > config program do the work of picking which features, something along the
> > lines of 386, 486, pentium, ppro, k6, other where other then allowes
> > individual features to be picked.
> This is the only manageable long term way of doing it.
> As the number of different types of CPU profierates the combinations of
> features will become more and more complicated.
>
> The kernel code then becomes simpler: #ifdefs being on a feature by
> feature basis.
>
> We still need to retain 'i386' & friends, but the only use is to be
> expanded (in some header file) into all the features that that CPU
> supports.
>
> This allows end users to properly configure their machines: they will
> more easily understand that they have a brand X CPU than they will know
> which particular flavour of MMU it supports.
Something like amiga_identify() in arch/m68k/amiga/config.c, but then in CPP
instead of C?
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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