From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic x86 support in 2.5.70-bk
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:56:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030601215615.GL8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030601182532.GA1948@lnuxlab.ath.cx>
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:25:32PM -0400, khromy wrote:
> Generic x86 support (X86_GENERIC) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
> Including some tuning for non selected x86 CPUs too.
> when it has moderate overhead. This is intended for generic
> distributions kernels.
> ^-- Am I the only one confused by this description?
It'll boot on a "wider" variety of machines, for some unspecified but
valuable-to-distros value of "wider".
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-01 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-01 18:25 Generic x86 support in 2.5.70-bk khromy
2003-06-01 21:56 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-06-06 16:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-06-07 7:16 ` [TRIV-PATCH] Better CONFIG_X86_GENERIC description (was: Re: Generic x86 support in 2.5.70-bk) Stewart Smith
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