Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

[bill davidsen]

In article <20030912182216.GK27368@xxxxxxxxx>,
Adrian Bunk  <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
                [...]

| But even CONFIG_X86_GENERIC doesn't do what you expect. A kernel 
| compiled for Athlon wouldn't run on a Pentium 4 even with 
| CONFIG_X86_GENERIC.
| 
| Quoting arch/i386/Kconfig in -test5:
| 
| <--  snip  -->
| 
| config X86_USE_3DNOW
|         bool
|         depends on MCYRIXIII || MK7
|         default y
| 
| <--  snip  -->
| 
| My patch in the mail
| 
|   RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection
| 
| tries to solve these problem with a different approach (the user selects 
| all CPUs he wants to support).

If you have managed to work around all the conflicting capabilities
without leaving the kernel way suboptimal on some, I salute your better
solution.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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