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Remove the related mappings and code. > > Hah, not referenced since 2008! This one seems like a no-brainer. Thankfully, it wasn't referenced anywhere. For a couple of minutes I was wondering why all family 6 CPUs are marked as Pentium 3 on 32-bit. > @@ -628,11 +628,6 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) > if (p) > strcpy(c->x86_model_id, p); > } Here.. > - if (c->x86 == 6) > - set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_P3);