Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] better i386 CPU selection

Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13T11:02:41Z

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:23:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
>Considering this, I can simply do the following in my proposal of
>offering every CPU type to the user?
>
>config X86_BAD_APIC
> bool
> depends on CPU_586TSC
> default y

That depends on your semantics for CPU_586TSC.
If it is required for support of pre-MMX P5s, then yes.
With the current semantics, where a CPU choice simply
sets a lower bound, then no.

/Mikael