On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Your X86_GENERIC is semantically equivalent to M386.
M386 is tuning for the Intel 386
X86_GENERIC is "try to tune for all CPUs if possible"
> This doesn't work. E.g. MPENTIUMIII has the semantics of "support
> Pentium-III and above". If you want to compile a kernel that runs on
> both a Pentium-III and a Pentium-4 you choose MPENTIUMIII which implies
> X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5 ...
Admittedly the other options could be changed to
default "4" if (MELAN || M486 || M386) && !X86_GENERIC
but that looked a bit too ugly and it seems to work even without.
-Andi
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