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

Robert Schwebel
2003-09-07T13:15:09Z

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I didn't look at the ARM Makefile. Thanks for the note, I'll have a
> look at it before I'll do the revision of this patch.

You should definitely discuss this with rmk. How do the PPC folks handle
CPU selection?

> > Ack. Same with for example Geode. And the subarchs might have different
>
> It seems the Geode support isn't fully merged in 2.6?

That's also my impression, although I didn't have much time to look at
the state. As far as I remember Christer Weinigel has recently done some
work in this direction.

> It should be no problem to add a "Processor support" menu for the Elan
> that allows you to specify which Elan CPUs you plan to support.

Great.

Robert
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