From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935728AbXGSKtZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:49:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756220AbXGSKtF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:49:05 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:38148 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751330AbXGSKtE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:49:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:48:25 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Alan Cox Cc: Andi Kleen , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [58/58] x86: remove support for the Rise CPU Message-ID: <20070719104825.GR3801@stusta.de> References: <200707191154.642492000@suse.de> <20070719095545.8AB5914E06@wotan.suse.de> <20070719114529.6fcd4022@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070719114529.6fcd4022@the-village.bc.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:45:29AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Googling for the printk string "CPU: Rise iDragon" didn't find any dmesg > > available online. > > > > If it turns out that against all expectations there are actually users > > reverting this patch would be easy. > > > > This patch will make the kernel images smaller by a few bytes for all > > i386 users. > > Why bother. Its a tiny tiny amount of code and it requires no maintenance > so it achieves nothing by leaving it alone and risks (slight I admit) > breaking someones box. - It's not only code, it also bloats everyone's kernel image. - All it did was to fiddle with capabilities - if any computer with a Rise cpu running Linux actually exists it should still work. - It's highly unlikely that we had any user of this code. > Alan cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed