Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

Nuno Monteiro
2005-03-02T19:25:05Z

On 2005.03.02 08:02, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> The Winchips never really sold that well, and stopped being produced
> when IDT sold off Centaur. It was a niche processor in 1997. In 2005,
> I'll be surprised if there are that many of them still working.
> Mine lost its magic smoke for no reason around ~2002.
>
> If there are any of them still being used out there, I'd be even
> more surprised if they're running 2.6. Then again, there are
> probably loonies out there running it on 386/486's. 8-)
>

Heh. Let me brag about it a little:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : WinChip C6
stepping : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de msr mce cx8 mmx centaur_mcr cid
bogomips : 399.76

$ uname -a
Linux kawasaki 2.6.10-rc3 #3 Fri Dec 17 21:44:53 CET 2004 i586 unknown

$ uptime
19:00:14 up 58 days, 1:21, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.17, 0.11

Running 2.6 at least since 2.6.0-test11-wli-something, dated Dec 6 2003
according to /boot (may have been running other 2.6-test before, but I
dont have them around any longer):

$ ls -al /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test11
-rw-r----- 1 root root 840607 Dec 6 2003 /boot/vmlinuz-
2.6.0-test11-wli

Not a single hiccup, so far *knock on wood*. Bragging even further, I
also have a genuine 80386 DX 33 up and running, although that one is
still on 2.0.37, iirc.

Oh, yes, I'm a loonie ;-)

Regards,

Nuno