Subject: Re: powerpc/cell: Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:41:44 +1100 (AEDT)

On Tue, 2015-13-10 at 08:17:07 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The TUNE_CELL option allows you to build a kernel that runs on multiple
> CPUs but is tuned (ie. optimised) to run on Cell CPUs. Now days no one
> is building a distro in that fashion, and any users who are building
> custom kernels for their Cell machines are better off building with
> CONFIG_CELL_CPU, which builds a kernel that only runs on Cell and
> therefore can be optimised even more aggresively.
> 
> Dropping the option also avoids confusing other users, who are presented
> with an option to tune for Cell when they are not building for a Cell
> CPU at all.
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>

Applied to powerpc next.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bed08b7e1fa41eac214acb17

cheers