From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765772AbYD3Vp0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758693AbYD3VpO (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:45:14 -0400 Received: from mail.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.35]:45364 "EHLO mail.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757024AbYD3VpN (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:45:13 -0400 From: Ondrej Zary To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:45:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080429081729.GA3921@ucw.cz> <20080430213457.GD18536@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080430213457.GD18536@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804302345.13217.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 30 April 2008 23:34:58 Pavel Machek wrote: > 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 Exactly. Nx686 is the one that was turned into AMD K6. -- Ondrej Zary