From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:34:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080430213457.GD18536@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429081729.GA3921@ucw.cz>
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
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next parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 21:34 UTC|newest]
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2008-04-30 21:34 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-04-30 21:41 ` [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-30 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-30 21:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-30 21:45 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-30 22:15 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
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