Re: [PATCH] intel-x86 model config cleanup

Albert D. Cahalan
2002-05-30T02:43:23Z

Dave Jones writes:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

>> This is still a mess. It's better to have one boolean
>> per processor, and order the processors by the year
>> in which they were most commonly sold.
>
> The information hiding of irrelevant options was one of the
> motivations behind that original patch. If I know I have
> an AMD Athlon, showing me all the Intel CPUs just gets in the way.

No, it's like this:

I want one kernel. I have a Pentium-MMX and a Pentium Pro.
I don't need support for a 386, 486, Athlon, or Xeon.

It's also like this:

We have a lab full of Athlon and Pentium III boxes.
There's not a Pentium 4 in sight, and no Pentium II
either. It's too much work to manage multiple kernels;
every box must boot from the same disk image.