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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrey Melnikoff <temnota+news@kmv.ru>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:16:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105053370.17176.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hcr0b2-ofr.ln1@kenga.kmv.ru>

On Iau, 2005-01-06 at 22:40, Andrey Melnikoff wrote:
> > They should be enabled by default. 
> Why? This is really _OLD_ and _BUGGY_ chips. As I see in google - it used 
> in Asustek Pentium MB PCI/I-P54SP4 and some Intel mb for Pentium with
> Neptune chipsets. All of this MB - for classic Pentium 75/90/100MHz. 

And the cost to you is .. zero.

> > That makes it safer for default compiles, and their code size is 
> > close to if not nil because it can all be __devinit or __init
> At this time, no modern MB use this buggy chipsets.

And lots of people run old motherboards. The base kernel configuration
by default is a mix between "things everyone wants, things defaulting on
for safety reasons and linus computer"

Alan


      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-07  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-31 22:26 Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options Christoph Anton Mitterer
2004-12-31 22:41 ` Michelle Konzack
2005-01-02 14:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-05 18:58   ` Andrey Melnikoff
2005-01-06 16:30     ` Alan Cox
2005-01-06 22:40       ` Andrey Melnikoff
2005-01-06 23:10         ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2005-01-06 23:19           ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07  0:47             ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2005-01-06 23:16         ` Alan Cox [this message]

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