On Llu, 2003-07-21 at 00:29, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Well, you separated the Pentium and Pentium-MMX. It's the exact same
> difference between Pentium Pro and Pentium-II: MMX technology. That's
> the point.
This makes no difference to the kernel. Splitting PPro would only make
sense for one reason. The Pentium Pro needs store barriers on
spin_unlock and friends, the PII and later do not. However if this was
done you'd also want to check for PPro boots with a PII kernel and panic
which isn't currently done
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