On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:19:22PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 09:41:32AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > > select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 &&
> > X86_LOCAL_APIC)
> > >
> > > Btw., could we (in a separate patch) turn this into:
> > >
> > > > select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
> > >
> > > x86 systems without an APIC are rare and rarely tested, we are better
> > off
> > > simplifying our clockevents layout.
> >
> > There's a ton of code in arch/x86 for cpus that don't have apic. Anything
> > Cyrix
> > pre-VIA buy out, Anything AMD pre Athlon, did Intel have apic on 486 ?
> > Transmeta ?
> >
> > I'm all for abandoning support for 2 decade old junk, but given how long
> > it took
> > to drop 386, I wouldn't be surprised if there are still a lot of 586 era
> > people
> > still out there playing doom and wearing clothes that are about to come
> > back
> > into fashion.
>
> We are not desupporting them in any way - we just simplify a generic
> clockevents
> bit by always enabling it.
For some reason I thought the generic events code implied the need for an apic.
Probably the misleading dependancy.
Dave
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