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.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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