Re: [PATCH] xen: drop anti-dependency on X86_VISWS

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On 04/06/2011 11:58 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure why ELAN belongs in the EXTENDED_PLATFORM option space
> rather than in the CPU choice option, since its only impact seems to be
> on -march, MODULE_PROC_FAMILY and some cpufreq drivers which doesn't
> sound like an extended platform to me but does it appear to be
> deliberate (see 9e111f3e167a "x86: move ELAN to the
> NON_STANDARD_PLATFORM section", that was the old name for
> EXTENDED_PLATFORM).
> 

Historic... we used to have nonstandard A20M# handling on Elan, until it
was discovered that we could make it work without it.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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