linux-kernel - Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

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Date:	Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:41:04 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de> writes:

> But no standard distribution will be made available in a geode special 
> version - not enough machines in the marekt. So I think it is better to 
> be able to use the i686 specific things they already support, like 
> libc6-686 from debian for example.

If it's only libc issue (and maybe of a couple of other packages like
gzip and bzip2), then I think it would be preferable for distributions
to provide a version optimized for Geode, without kernel hacks.
Though I guess the above is not actually the case, is it?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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