From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965015AbXGSO5e (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:57:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S938345AbXGSO5F (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:57:05 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:39939 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937927AbXGSO5D (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:57:03 -0400 Message-ID: <469F7BB9.1000202@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:56:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Alan Cox , Adrian Bunk , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] [58/58] x86: remove support for the Rise CPU References: <200707191154.642492000@suse.de> <20070719104825.GR3801@stusta.de> <20070719121340.08da9bbf@the-village.bc.nu> <200707191403.39372.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200707191403.39372.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. Er, huh? It's not upstream. > Besides the CPU will likely boot even without special handling. You don't know this. Why risk it? Just leave the CPU magic as-is. Jeff