Re: [PATCH] [5/7] Remove CONFIG_X86_TSC for 32bit II

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 16:05:26 EST


Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:

> The config option protects so little code that it is fairly pointless.
> Also a lot of its code was related to itself only (as in panicing without
> TSC). And TSC less CPUs are completely handled at runtime anyways.
>
> This makes 32bit behaviour match x86-64.
>
> I also removed an #if defined(CONFIG_X86_GENERIC) in get_cycles. Not sure
> what that was good for, it didn't make any sense.

Hmm, during further testing i found that the patch causes boot failures
in some configuration. I withdraw this one for now.

The other patches in the series are independent and should be still
considered for merging.

-Andi
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