kernel broken using CPUTYPE and 2.95.4

[Evan Dower]

Why not just have something check for known working CPUTYPES and fail with 
an error such as "Unsupported CPUTYPE: 'p4'. Use FORCE_CPUTYPE=YES to do it 
anyway (but you really shouldn't)." If somebody wants to try it, they can, 
but you gave them fair warning that they it's not a good idea.
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From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai at xxxxxx>
To: kernel at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: kernel broken using CPUTYPE and 2.95.4
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:09:30 +0200
-On [20040510 22:12], David Rhodus (drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>Well we already have a mudge in for when people try to use -O3 on a
>kernel build, I wonder if we should add this in too ?:-/ Saying that
>even though I don't like messing around with the options a user has
>specified.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on that David, however in this specific
case I just have to wonder if we should protect the users against
themselves and us from the users.  Yes, I know, I should've known
better, but what's the use in having CPUTYPE in make.conf if we _known_
it will create binaries which cause strange problems to creep up?  Might
as well just yank it and be done with the headache.
Opinions on this?  Matt?

That is, until I get the compiler done... *whistles*

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