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

From: Tom Rini
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 10:37:04 EST


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:14:43PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I didn't look at the ARM Makefile. Thanks for the note, I'll have a
> > look at it before I'll do the revision of this patch.
>
> You should definitely discuss this with rmk. How do the PPC folks handle
> CPU selection?

We don't allow for one kernel to work on something outside of a
'family', nor do we (aside from MULTIPLATFORM) allow a kernel to work on
> 1 board type (maybe we'll fix that in 2.7). You can pick 8xx
(MPC8xx line), 8260 (MPC826x/MPC827x, and should be fixed up to into
classic), 6xx/7xx/74xx (aka 'classic' PPC, 40x and 44x.

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Tom Rini
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