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

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-09-07 at 18:48, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> It seems to be similar to the Elan: the core is "just another PC", but
> in several places you need to know that you have a Geode so that you can
> provide the right tweaks and fixes. 

ELAN is "like a PC", Geode is a PC, to software. You can run a generic
386/486/586/586+MMX kernel on a Geode CPU. The Geode support just picks
the right compile options and our setup code turns on some handy CPU
features we can use

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