linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/12] x86 Kconfig: create mtrr menu

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Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:06:50 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] x86 Kconfig: create mtrr menu

On 12/31/2013 11:26 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/30/13 10:40, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
>> This removes another 4 lines from the default x86 menu.  Note
>> that I slightly changed the MTRR prompt text since PAT is
>> hidden under here.  This makes PAT easier to find since it
>> "depends on MTRR" anyway.
> 
> I would have put MTRR/PAT in the new Processor Options and Features
> menu.

Sounds good to me.  I'll move it.

> How do you decide what goes where?

It's pretty arbitrary. :)  But, better than what we have now where
almost *EVERYTHING* is hard to find in the noise.
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