linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [5/7] Remove CONFIG_X86

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:06:28 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [5/7] Remove CONFIG_X86_TSC for 32bit II


* Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes:
> 
> > The config option protects so little code that it is fairly pointless.
> > Also a lot of its code was related to itself only (as in panicing without
> > TSC). And TSC less CPUs are completely handled at runtime anyways.
> >
> > This makes 32bit behaviour match x86-64.
> >
> > I also removed an #if defined(CONFIG_X86_GENERIC) in get_cycles. Not 
> > sure what that was good for, it didn't make any sense.
> 
> Hmm, during further testing i found that the patch causes boot 
> failures in some configuration. I withdraw this one for now.

ok, pulled. In what situations did it fail? It worked fine on a (small) 
number of systems here.

> The other patches in the series are independent and should be still 
> considered for merging.

yep, they are in and have caused no problems so far.

	Ingo
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