From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:25:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:25:38 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:6660 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:25:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:25:36 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: Alan Cox Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Use of CONFIG_M686 Message-ID: <20020529162536.N27463@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel In-Reply-To: <20020527222253.GG1848@werewolf.able.es> <20020527222928.GI1848@werewolf.able.es> <1022544346.4123.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:05:46AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > You misunderstand the intent. A 386 or 486 kernel will run on a Pentium > and could therefore hit the error. A PPro kernel would die earlier > anyway. Of course its long been PPRO|Athlon|... and the ifdef wanted > updating. I'd ifdef it on CONFIG_X86_FOOF_BUG and put the FOOF thing > into arch/i386/Config.in nicely with the other stuff Agreed. This is what's done in 2.5 btw. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs