Re: [PATCH][kconfig][i386] Fix help entry for processor type choice

Petr Baudis (pasky@ucw.cz)
Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:45:58 +0100


Dear diary, on Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:13:06PM CET, I got a letter,
where Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> told me, that...
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:40:09PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> > bool "486"
> > help
> > - Select this for a x486 processor, ether Intel or one of the
> > + Select this for an x486 processor, either Intel or one of the
>
> This bit is broken. There is no x486 processor, it should be either
> 'i486', '80486' or just '486'. There's already a patch fixing up this
> (and x586 x686 etc) in Alans 2.5-ac patchset.

Ok, the new version follows, thanks. It does s/an x386/386 series/ and removes
the x486 line typo fixes, which are redundant for -ac (which is where this will
probably end up anyway).

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--- linux+pasky/arch/i386/Kconfig Thu Mar 6 20:38:49 2003 +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig Sat Mar 15 21:34:16 2003 @@ -110,10 +110,7 @@ choice prompt "Processor family" default M686 - -config M386 - bool "386" - ---help--- + help This is the processor type of your CPU. This information is used for optimizing purposes. In order to compile a kernel that can run on all x86 CPU types (albeit not optimally fast), you can specify @@ -148,6 +145,16 @@ If you don't know what to do, choose "386". +config M386 + bool "386" + help + Select this for a 386 series processor, that is AMD/Cyrix/Intel + 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/SX, Cyrix/TI 486DLC/DLC2, UMC 486SX-S and NexGen + Nx586. Kernel compiled for this processor will also run on any newer + processor of this architecture, although not optimally fast. + + If you don't know what processor to choose, choose this one. + config M486 bool "486" help - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/