kernel cpu entries

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, 2005-Dec-15 12:53:59 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
>Same here be nice to get a catagoric answer to this.
>
>   Steve
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Randy Rowe" <rerowe at rerowe.com>
>>
>>I have multiple dual and quad Pentium Pro machines running 4.x that have
>>been
>>remarkably stable using the I686_CPU setting (kudos to the developers!!).
>>So I add myself to the list of those that have been removing the
>>I586_CPU option.

UTSL: The i586 optimised routines were only ever enabled if the CPU
was identified as a 586.  And these routines have been disabled since
mid-2001.  See my mail in the "Odd performance problems..."  thread
for more details.

-- 
Peter Jeremy