Commit e1319f38 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CONFIG_X86_GENERIC description fixup

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From:  Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au>

A better explanation of the X86_GENERIC config option follows.
parent f17ea056
...@@ -322,9 +322,13 @@ endchoice ...@@ -322,9 +322,13 @@ endchoice
config X86_GENERIC config X86_GENERIC
bool "Generic x86 support" bool "Generic x86 support"
help help
Including some tuning for non selected x86 CPUs too. Instead of just including optimizations for the selected
when it has moderate overhead. This is intended for generic x86 variant (e.g. PII, Crusoe or Athlon), include some more
distributions kernels. generic optimizations as well. This will make the kernel
perform better on x86 CPUs other than that selected.
This is really intended for distributors who need more
generic optimizations.
endif endif
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