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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message.
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:59:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080528175941.GA4642@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805281943330.19264@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:48:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 > 
 > On Wednesday 2008-05-28 18:57, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >Trying to boot a 64-bit kernel on a 32bit Pentium 4 gets
 > >you an amusing message along the lines of.
 > >"you need an x86-64, but you only have an i1586"
 > >due to the P4 being family F.  Munge it to be 686.
 > 
 > What is wrong with it? If i386, 486, 586 and 686 are valid names,
 > why should not 786 (or rather 1586... since someone thought it
 > would be cool to jump the number^1) be?

When you find the Intel literature that refers to the '786' or the '1586',
feel free to send a patch. In the meantime, we'll refer to it as
the rest of the world does.

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-28 16:57 [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message Dave Jones
2008-05-28 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-28 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-28 17:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 17:53   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-28 18:02     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 18:25       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-28 19:30         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-29  0:10           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-29  0:13             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-29  9:35               ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-30 20:30                 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-28  3:08             ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-28  8:30               ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-10-28 14:46                 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-28 15:46                 ` Dave Jones
2009-10-29 16:33                   ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-28  3:39             ` Yuhong Bao
2008-05-28 17:59   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-05-28 18:11     ` H. Peter Anvin

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