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From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: "'Mike Silbersack'" <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: RE: LINT CPU features table
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:24:31 -0700
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Mike Silbersack wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> > [This inquiry found no takers on -questions, so I am trying it on 
> > -hackers]
> >
> > I found the list of CPU options in LINT to be not very accessible. 
> > What would be considerably more useful, perhaps in addition to the 
> > information in LINT, would be a table of CPU's, with a checkbox for 
> > each CPU feature that should/could be enabled for this 
> particular CPU.
> >
> > Is anybody here aware of such a table? If not, is anybody 
> here able to 
> > perhaps create such a table and add it to the Handbook? I 
> believe it 
> > would be of substantial help to the user.
> >
> > "OK, I have an AMD K6-333". [User looks down the "AMD K6" 
> row of the 
> > table]. "I can turn on feature L, M, and Y".
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > --Lucky
> 
> For most cpus, there is little to be gained by fiddling with 
> cpu specific options.  Hence, there is little reason to 
> provide a complex table; having all cpu types enabled as in 
> GENERIC is just fine.

If only a few CPU's would benefit from the CPU-specific options,
creating a table of CPU options for those few CPU's should be all the
simpler. What I am I missing?

Thanks,
--Lucky


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