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

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:23:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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

That depends on your semantics for CPU_586TSC.
If it is required for support of pre-MMX P5s, then yes.
With the current semantics, where a CPU choice simply
sets a lower bound, then no.

/Mikael
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