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

Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-12T21:38:13Z

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:07:28 +0200, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
>[
>My questions might sound silly - I simply don't have the x86
>knowledge, but I want to get the dependencies as good as possible.
>]
>
>All Cyrix/VIA/IDT/Transmeta processors have a working APIC?

None of them do.

>What about the original 386?

Nope.

>Then I can simply change it in my patch to
>
>config X86_GOOD_APIC
> bool
> depends on !CPU_586TSC
> default y

GOOD_APIC is Intel P5MMX, Intel P6 and above, and AMD K7 and above.
Nothing else has GOOD_APIC: P5 Classic because of the bug, and the
rest because they don't have local APIC at all.

/Mikael