Re: Promoting Crusoe and Geode Processors to i686 Status

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 17:39:14 EST


On 09/07/2010 05:27 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
>
> 2) Should there be the special case that forces the suboptimal
> -mtune=generic32 to work around the binutils NOPL bug or, as I think,
> should people just update to a sane binutils version? (It's a special
> case triggered where CONFIG_X86_P6_NOP is not set.)
>

What's suboptimal about it?

-hpa
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