Re: Generic x86 support in 2.5.70-bk

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:25:01 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, khromy wrote:

> Generic x86 support (X86_GENERIC) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
>
> Including some tuning for non selected x86 CPUs too.
> when it has moderate overhead. This is intended for generic
> distributions kernels.
>
> ^-- Am I the only one confused by this description?

The second sentence was mangled when it was machine translated from the
original Klingon ;-)

Seriously, it doesn't parse. I can't decide if "when" in that sentence is
the wrong word, or if it snuck in uncapitalized and shouldn't be there at
all. I don't feel to "too" in the first sentence belongs, it doesn't refer
to several things.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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