Re: Pentium M config option for 2.6

From: Rob Love
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 12:02:14 EST


On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 11:50, Dave Jones wrote:

> FWIW, I agree with it too on the grounds that its non obvious the optimal
> setting is CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII. This seems cleaner IMO than changing the
> helptext to read...
>
> "Pentium II"
> "Pentium III / Pentium 4M"
> "Pentium 4"

Oh, very much agreed. Giving it a separate configure option also opens
the door for easily adding an march=pentiumm whenever the gcc folks get
around to adding that.

> My other mail may have sounded like I objected to the patch per se, I don't.

I did not think that, I thought perhaps that you thought that I objected
:)

Rob Love

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