On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 21:01 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > Couple of PowerPC related config things we might want to change. > > 1) CONFIG_TUNE_CELL. Right now, this is set to Y on config-powerpc64. > That's fine only because it doesn't do anything until GCC 4.3 shows > up. GCC 4.3 will hit rawhide soon, and we might want to turn this off > before then or the kernel will likely run slower on non-Cell CPU based > machines. Will do. I'd wondered about that myself quite recently -- not sure who turned it on. > 2) Why are we still building a separate powerpc32-smp kernel? SMP > kernel's work on UP machines, even for PowerPC IIRC. But not particularly efficiently, and _most_ ppc32 machines are UP. For i386 SMP we have magic to NOP out the spinlocks, etc. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
