Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-07-21 at 00:29, William M. Quarles wrote:
>
>>Well, you separated the Pentium and Pentium-MMX. It's the exact same
>>difference between Pentium Pro and Pentium-II: MMX technology. That's
>>the point.
>
>
> This makes no difference to the kernel. Splitting PPro would only make
> sense for one reason. The Pentium Pro needs store barriers on
> spin_unlock and friends, the PII and later do not. However if this was
> done you'd also want to check for PPro boots with a PII kernel and panic
> which isn't currently done
>
Well, wouldn't changing the gcc -march option and/or adding -mcpu
options for the various processors in the Makefile make a difference, as
the patchfile suggests?
-- William M. Quarlesquarlewm@jmu.edu wquarles@bucknell.edu walrus@bellsouth.net
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