From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765135AbXGSMGf (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:06:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758471AbXGSMG2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:06:28 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46475 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758378AbXGSMG1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:06:27 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] [58/58] x86: remove support for the Rise CPU Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:03:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Adrian Bunk , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200707191154.642492000@suse.de> <20070719104825.GR3801@stusta.de> <20070719121340.08da9bbf@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070719121340.08da9bbf@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707191403.39372.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 19 July 2007 13:13:40 Alan Cox wrote: > > - It's not only code, it also bloats everyone's kernel image. > > Its a miniscule piece of code that is discarded on boot. Yes it might > make the image 100 bytes longer, but have you priced a 160GB disk > recently. I don't think 100 bytes of disk and 0 of memory really is worth > saving for any risk at all. Its not even worth the time to apply the > patch. The patch is already applied. Besides the CPU will likely boot even without special handling. -Andi