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

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 19:21, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If you know that you're only booting on a 486, why include all the junk
> needed solely for later processors?

Because its a nightmare to provide a billion CPU specific kernels, a set
of foo and higher kernels and a "generic kernel", then do it for each
platform 2.6 supports for x86, then test it.

The submission already looks like something out of a puzzle book

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