Re: [PATCH 7/12] meye: the driver is no longer experimental and depends on PCI

[Stelian Pop]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:16:02PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 
> > I thought that CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not cost-free and thus must
> > be enabled only when needed...
> 
> having multiple kernels also isn't free... and there's a milion
> different config options that cost/gain performance ;)

What about backward compatibility ? If I understand the PAE help text
correctly, a PAE enabled kernel will not boot on a processor which
doesn't support PAE, like my Crusoe:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineTMx86
cpu family	: 6
model		: 4
model name	: Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5600
stepping	: 3
cpu MHz		: 595.597
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx longrun
bogomips	: 1167.36

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <stelian@xxxxxxxxxx>    
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