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
next prev 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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