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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: observations on 2.5 config screens
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:50:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108195000.GA670@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030108132758.22872B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:36:06PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

 > I guess, depending on your definition of fundemental. I would put any
 > option which affects the kernel as a whole in that category, myself.
 > Compiling with frame pointers comes to mind, since every object file is
 > changed and there are performance implications as well.

No-one other than kernel hackers should be playing with that option,
hence it's in the kernel hacking menu.

 > Processor option would select the processor and any architecture dependent
 > options, I would think. Something like "kernel characteristics" could have
 > options like smp.

SMP isn't a processor option ?

		Dave

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-01 19:55 observations on 2.5 config screens Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-01 20:07 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-01 20:15   ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-01 20:26   ` John Bradford
2003-01-02  1:55   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-02  2:32     ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-02  4:10       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-02  2:54     ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-07 23:07 ` [2.5 patch] MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD must depend on MODULE_UNLOAD Adrian Bunk
2003-01-08 12:05   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-07 23:30 ` observations on 2.5 config screens Adrian Bunk
2003-01-07 23:42   ` Robert Love
2003-01-08  0:14     ` Russell King
2003-01-08 14:32     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-08 15:53       ` Robert Love
2003-01-08 18:36         ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-08 19:50           ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-01-08 22:49             ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 12:50               ` Dave Jones
2003-01-09 16:12                 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 13:38             ` Ruslan U. Zakirov
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011435300.27623-100000@dell.qualified-at.bofh.it>
2003-01-02 23:50 ` Bill Davidsen

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