From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: thuth@redhat.com
Subject: Re: powerpc/cell: Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:41:44 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021114144.8F7F2140DB4@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444724227-24251-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
On Tue, 2015-13-10 at 08:17:07 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The TUNE_CELL option allows you to build a kernel that runs on multiple
> CPUs but is tuned (ie. optimised) to run on Cell CPUs. Now days no one
> is building a distro in that fashion, and any users who are building
> custom kernels for their Cell machines are better off building with
> CONFIG_CELL_CPU, which builds a kernel that only runs on Cell and
> therefore can be optimised even more aggresively.
>
> Dropping the option also avoids confusing other users, who are presented
> with an option to tune for Cell when they are not building for a Cell
> CPU at all.
>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bed08b7e1fa41eac214acb17
cheers
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2015-10-13 8:17 [PATCH] powerpc/cell: Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU Michael Ellerman
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