Re: [PATCH] add explicit Pentium II support

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 15:16:04 EST


On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:03, Robert Love wrote:
> This patch is by Luuk van der Duim with some changes by me (primarily to
> also support the pre-Coppermine Celeron chips, since those use Pentium
> II cores). This patch has been in 2.5-mm for awhile and Andrew ack'ed
> this submission.

Looks good. Might also be good to clarify in the help whether the PII/PIII
option also skips using lock decb for the spinlocks and the other fence
workarounds for the PPro fence errata.

Alan

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