linux-kernel - Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

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Message-ID: <20070717193028.GF11166@waste.org>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:30:28 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Jonathan Campbell <jon@...dgrounds.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...nsmeta.com
Subject: Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:59:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15 2007 14:00, Jonathan Campbell wrote:
> >
> > These patches were written against the vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. They will have
> > no effect UNLESS you make menuconfig and explicitly enable them there.
> >
> >
> inline patches...
> 
> >+config X86_DONT_CPUID
> >+	bool "Disable CPUID support"
> >+	depends on M386 || M486
> 
> I think this should not depend on any model.
> Depend on x86 at best.

Indeed.
 
> 	depends on X86
> 
> >+	default n
> 
> And perhaps it would be helpful to invert it, like the other options, i.e.:
> 
> config X86_CPUID
> 	bool "Enable CPUID support" if X86 && EMBEDDED
> 	default y

Definitely.

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