From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
To: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86L does not get identified by Linux 2.6
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:30:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429D8046.3010403@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506010036.27957.gjasny@web.de>
Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my Cyrix 6x86L (notice the L) I've got the problem that it doesn't get
> identified as a Cyrix processor. Instead it is treated as a common 486.
>
> I think the problem is that the cpuid feature is not enabled after booting. So
> init_cyrix which enables the cpuid feature is never called.
>
> As a bad hack I've set the this_cpu pointer to cyrix in
> common.c:identify_cpu():
>
> this_cpu = cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_CYRIX];
>
> Who is responsible for x86 CPU detection?
Hans Peter Arvin? Andrew Balsa?
> [ ... ]
Matthias-Christian Ott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-01 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-31 22:36 Cyrix 6x86L does not get identified by Linux 2.6 Gregor Jasny
2005-06-01 9:30 ` Matthias-Christian Ott [this message]
2005-06-01 23:49 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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