Re: Proposed changes to linux-2.6
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 22:57 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:32:48PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > I intend to do the following changes to linux-2.6:
> > > * Change i386/686(-bigmem) to include generic optimizations, should work
> > > on all x86 then. Maybe rename them somehow later.
>
> I checked it again, this is incorrect. A generic optimized kernel with a
> 686 setting will not work on older cpus.
Virtual machines (including those from Redmond) probably needs testing.
Let me know when you have something I can test on Hyper-V, VirtualPC and
ESX. (There are probably lots of candidates to test qemu, kvm,
VirtualBox 1&2, vmware...)
Franklin
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