#7813 HIGH 8.2.0 (: devel_ext3 should pull a kernel that doesn't require 3dnow

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#7813: devel_ext3 should pull a kernel that doesn't require 3dnow
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   Reporter:  cjb     |       Owner:  dsaxena             
       Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  kernel  |     Version:  not specified       
 Resolution:          |    Keywords:                      
Next_action:  code    |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:          |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by dsaxena):

 We need to figure out what to do about this one.

 * Easy answer is to update Dilinger's build scripts to spit out a second
 kernel RPM with 3dNow disabled.

 * Harder option is to setup our spec file to spit out both 3dnow and non-
 3dnow kernel RPMs. The spec file we're currently using are derived from
 ones that support building multiple kernel configs for Fedora (PAE, Xen,
 etc) but we're not making use of this feature and I'm not sure
 how easy it would be to use it with our git kernel tree.

 Unless someone complains, I'm going to implement #1.

 I think long term I actually want to get rid of the kernel requirement by
 allowing the kernel to determine at boot time which memcpy() or
 clear_page() we should copy, but I'm wanting to keep kernel changes to
 minimal for 8.2.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7813#comment:4>
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