Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)

Alan Cox
2002-01-10T17:26:27Z

> Surelly I will not maintain the DMI table!

Quite

> This is a call for help: how to write a table
> CPU - CONFIG_SYMBOL ?
> Now I use Vendor/Name/Family/Stepping/, but
> maybe with Vendor + flags (CPUID flags) the result
> will be more correct?

You need the family/model information to get the right optimisations. Its
often not that the instruction set is different but that the cpu
implementation is different that determines the choice. With a couple of
exceptions cpu type is actually not too important and accidentally using
486 will make little difference