Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata

Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12T20:00:58Z

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:30:16PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>...
> I think it's useful to keep kernels booting everywhere, it makes it a lot easier
> to test a single kernel on multiple systems.

Different people have different needs:

Sometimes you want kernels booting everywhere, e.g. a distribution might
want to support all CPUs from an 386 to an Opteron with one kernel for
their boot floppies.

For a system administrator with only Pentium 3 and Pentum 4 machines
support for 386 and Opteron isn't of much worth.

In some embedded systems people are happy about every kB their kernel is
smaller.

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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