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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu detection fixes for test10-pre4
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:43:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39F9CCCB.538FAEBA@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13pANf-0004Va-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > >   - make Pentium IV and other post-P6 processors use the "i686"
> > >     family name (same fix as the system_utsname.machine init fix
> > >     which went into include/asm-i386/bugs.h in test10-pre4)
> > >
> >
> > We should never have used anything but "i386" as the utsname... sigh.
> 
> Its questionable if we should include the 'i'
>

True enough, personally I prefer "x86".

	-hpa

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-27 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8snfgq$uvr$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
2000-10-27 14:21 ` [PATCH] cpu detection fixes for test10-pre4 Alan Cox
2000-10-27 17:55   ` Tim Riker
2000-10-27 18:43   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2000-10-27 19:46     ` Horst von Brand
2000-10-27 20:02       ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-27 20:55       ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 21:14         ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-28  4:32           ` IA-32 (was Re: [PATCH] cpu detection fixes for test10-pre4) Barry K. Nathan
2000-10-28  6:02             ` H. Peter Anvin

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