Re: [PATCHv2] x86: add kconfig options for newer 64-bit processors
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 22 2013 - 04:24:02 EST
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> By this same logic though, none of the x86 processor tuning options
> currently in the kernel should have been put in in the first place
> (and, taking it to an extreme, should in fact be removed).
Some of them make sense like MATOM as Atom supports a different subset
of x86 insns, MOVBE being one example. And there's no need to touch them
as unnecessary code churn is something we don't do.
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