* Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch adds some configuration options that allow to compile out
> CPU vendor-specific code in x86 kernels (in arch/x86/kernel/cpu). The
> new configuration options are only visible when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is
> selected, as they are mostly interesting for space savings reasons.
>
> An example of size saving, on x86 with only Intel CPU support:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1125479 118760 212992 1457231 163c4f vmlinux.old
> 1121355 116536 212992 1450883 162383 vmlinux
> -4124 -2224 0 -6348 -18CC +/-
>
> However, I'm not exactly sure that the Kconfig wording is correct with
> regard to !64BIT / 64BIT.
applied to tip/x86/cpu, thanks Thomas. (I've done a trivial cleanup:
converted the macro to an inline.)
Peter, do you like this version of the patch or would you like further
improvements?
Ingo
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