On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:04:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >  
> >  config X86_GENERIC
> > -	bool "Generic x86 support"
> > +	bool "Generic x86 support" if EMBEDDED
> 
> Ok, so after having realized that this seems to be more about a bug with 
> gcc, I'm really not as convinced any more.
> 
> As far as I can tell, there are three issues:
> 
>  - "-mtune=core/core2/pentium4/.." is buggy in some gas/gcc versions on 
>    x86-32, and makes architectural choices.
> 
>    Any actual _released_ versions? Maybe it's just a current SVN issue?
> 
>    Workaround: don't use it. And yes, X86_GENERIC=y will do that, although 
>    quite frankly that seems to be dubious in itself.
>...

As far as I understood it it's a gas issue, and X86_GENERIC=y would 
therefore *not* fix the bug with gcc < 4.2 and affected binutils
since we pass -mtune=i686 for gcc < 4.2 with X86_GENERIC=y.

Anything I miss?

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> 		Linus

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Adrian

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