linux-kernel - Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification.

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Message-ID: <20080520180609.GA31805@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 14:06:09 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [X86] Remove unnecessary code in 64bit CPU identification.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:58:07AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:46:57AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > >  > Dave Jones wrote:
 > >  > > There were no 64bit Transmeta CPUs made (and it'd be something of
 > >  > > a surprise if they started any time soon).   To the best of my knowledge,
 > >  > > no CPU vendor cloned the 80860000 cpuid space claimed by Transmeta.
 > >  > > By removing this code, we can also eliminate calling cpuid 0x80000007 twice.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > >  > 
 > >  > I'd really like to avoid divergences between the 32-bit and 64-bit code 
 > >  > if they can be avoided at this point.  These codes need to be unified, 
 > >  > not further split.
 > > 
 > > Umm, the 32 bit code has the per-vendor stuff removed from setup.c, and factored
 > > out into per-vendor files in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/  Because the 64bit version
 > > doesn't do that (yet), my removal of this code actually gets us closer to unification.
 > > After my patch, neither of the setup.c files have the Transmeta bits :)
 > > 
 > 
 > *Shrug* ... it seems like pointless churn to code that really needs to 
 > die to me.

setup_64.c |   13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

It's a slow death, but it's easier to chip away at the obvious parts..

	Dave

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