From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:36 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:33028 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:22 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Transmeta Crusoe support? Date: 24 May 2001 08:46:14 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <9ejac6$8d4$1@penguin.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Alan Cox wrote: >> Question is whether I need to recompile everything (kernel and binaries) >> on my current 586 platform in order to move to Crusoe? > >No. Crusoe should work out of the box in that sense. Its actually however >not brilliantly documented for things like longrun mode where folks have >actually been poking around the acpi data in order to find out how the thing >works... thats the ironic part 8) Now, now, we released all the longrun utilities a few months ago, so the "poke around ACPI" stuff is fairly dated by now (and what the reverse- engineered code did was actually _not_ longrun at all, but "coolrun", the temperature-based stuff). Linus