From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data in nexgen.c
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:26:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480BA6F3.6030308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480BA19C.8090608@firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> It was shipped as AMD K6, but I have no idea if this file is supposed
> to handle real k6s or just early nexgen engineering samples.
>
> But since it has been basically broken forever (or at least for
> all of 2.6) it is probably safe to remove until someone complains.
>
The file only triggers on the "NexGenDriven" CPU signature. Let's kill it.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-20 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-20 2:54 [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 2:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: remove unused function amd_init_cpu() Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 2:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data in nexgen.c Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-20 10:33 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] x86: remove unused function, register the cpu vendor " Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 18:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data " Andi Kleen
2008-04-20 19:24 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 19:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-20 19:45 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 19:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-20 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-20 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-23 18:19 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-23 19:02 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 2:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: the standard_io_resources[] array can become static Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-20 2:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: conditionally compile sysfs stuff in intel_cacheinfo.c Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-21 12:25 ` [PATCH 0/4] x86: random clean-ups Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <90edad820804210541h26c8e66dh70895f32e4b4038d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-22 14:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 19:18 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-22 19:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-22 19:37 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
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