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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: P6 NOPs again: MPSC?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:28:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080311092843.GO25110@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803102142440.2464@blonde.site>
* Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> (But I've lost my way around here. A good example of the 32/64
> confusion is how one has to remember that X86_GENERIC is peculiar to
> 32-bit, and CPU_GENERIC peculiar to 64-bit. And CPU_GENERIC is
> understandably an alternative to the specific 64-bit models, but
> X86_GENERIC is strangely in addition to the specific 32-bit models.)
yes - this is one of the arbitrary deviations between 32-bit and 64-bit.
Patches to bring the concepts and names in sync are welcome :-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 19:33 [PATCH] x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486 Hugh Dickins
2008-03-04 21:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 21:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-10 19:14 ` P6 NOPs again: MPSC? Hugh Dickins
2008-03-10 20:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-10 22:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-11 6:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-11 14:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-11 9:28 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-11 13:45 ` Hugh Dickins
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