Re: [git pull] x86 fixes

Andi Kleen
2008-09-08T22:43:39Z

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:22:24 -0700
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The "ideal" way to do any of this would probably to have checkboxes
>> for all the CPUs you want to support and then a drop-down box for the
>> CPU to optimize for. However, the combinatorics of that would be
>> horrible, and it would be very unlikely we would avoid bugs.
>
> the ideal case would be "support them all"

Support all from the last 10 years (ok excluding legacy models that
just shipped forever like 486). I think that's quite reasonable
to do and worked for a long time.

-Andi
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