On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

Bill Davidsen [off-list ref] wrote:

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- Dropped the x86 CPU-type selection patches

 Was there a problem with this? Seems like a good start to allow cleaning 
 up some "but I don't have that CPU" things which embedded and tiny 
 systems really would like to eliminate.

I think it was a good change, and was appropriate to 2.5.x.  But for 2.6.x
the benefit didn't seem to justify the depth of the change.

And will it be appropriate for 2.7? It really does give a start to
trimming code you don't want in a small kernel, and would have been nice
so people could use it for any processor specific additions to 2.6.

Not arguing, but it was a step to improve control of creeping unnecessary
archetecture support.

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bill davidsen [off-list ref]
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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