Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 15:30:54 EST


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:59:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Jul 15 2007 14:00, Jonathan Campbell wrote:
> >
> > These patches were written against the vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. They will have
> > no effect UNLESS you make menuconfig and explicitly enable them there.
> >
> >
> inline patches...
>
> >+config X86_DONT_CPUID
> >+ bool "Disable CPUID support"
> >+ depends on M386 || M486
>
> I think this should not depend on any model.
> Depend on x86 at best.

Indeed.

> depends on X86
>
> >+ default n
>
> And perhaps it would be helpful to invert it, like the other options, i.e.:
>
> config X86_CPUID
> bool "Enable CPUID support" if X86 && EMBEDDED
> default y

Definitely.

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