On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:06:47PM +0000, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin wrote: > x86, msr: change msr-reg.o to obj-y, and export its symbols > > Change msr-reg.o to obj-y (it will be included in virtually every > kernel since it is used by the initialization code for AMD processors) Yeah, about that, I'm wondering whether a more fine grained Kconfig suboptions would be appropriate here. Currently, <arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel,amd}.c> are sprinkled with the if (c->x86 == XX) { apply quirks } thingies and we could put those into their own files which are built/linked only when enabled. Before that, you would have chosen the CPU vendor and the CPU family thus pulling only the related quirks/fixes. Distros will of course need to enable all of them. Then, all those different families quirks should be iterated over in a manner similar to the initcall mechanism. Anyways, just an idea - it could be dumb overengineering but on a first glance it will organize/simplify the quirks code, reduce kernel image proper, get rid of Kconfig options like CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG, vendor-specific cpuinfo_x86 members like fdiv_bug, f00f_bug, coma_bug, and [add another good reason here :)]. Comments? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html