From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add AMD Geode processor support
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:54:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050127185412.GA1679@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FFF9B138-7089-11D9-AE1E-003065F9B7DC@embeddedalley.com>
Hi!
> >We do not disable HIGHMEM_64GB for 486, I do not see why we should add
> >extra code to geode...
>
> What about some of the other ones like MTRR and IOAPIC?
> I was kinda passing this along from someone I thought knew
> better than I, but I didn't like it either. It seems just setting these
> booleans to 'n' should do the trick.
Actually sorry, no, you can't do that.
486 should mean "can run on 486 or better" (at least in 2.4.X
series). That means it should have IOAPIC support compiled in.
Just do not play with HIGHMEM_64GB; someone may want a kernel for
"geode or better".
Pavel
--
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-27 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-27 6:54 [PATCH] add AMD Geode processor support Dan Malek
2005-01-27 17:15 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-27 17:36 ` Dan Malek
2005-01-27 18:54 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-01-31 16:01 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-31 19:46 ` Dan Malek
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