Zephaniah E, Hull.
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:31:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Note that I have rewritten the config.in file to essentially do this, and
> now the i386/etc choices are really just shorthands for various
> combinations of options.
>
> I agree that the most flexible thing is to make each option an option in
> itself, but quite frankly, it's way too confusing to people that don't
> intimately know their machine. Think of somebody that knows he has a
> Celeron chip, but doesn't know much else. At least there is a chance in
> hell that he would select "Pentium Pro", but there is just _no_ way that
> he can sanely answer a few questions like
>
> - do you hav a working WP bit in supervisor mode?
> - do you have a time stamp counter that works?
> - does you machine have a local APIC that doesn't need the
> read-before-write workaround?
>
> And that's basically why there is the choice according to machine type
> rather than according to each possible feature.
>
> Linus
>
>
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