From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765002AbYD3VeZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:34:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759952AbYD3VeR (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:34:17 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:42765 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759949AbYD3VeQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:34:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:34:58 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) Message-ID: <20080430213457.GD18536@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080429081729.GA3921@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080429081729.GA3921@ucw.cz> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179 > > Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for > a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being > essentially dead. Are you sure it never shipped? Wikipedia seems to suggest it did ship. http://www.cpu-info.com/index2.php?mainid=Nx586&page=5 ...FPU for nexgen was never shipped, that implies that CPU did ship. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html