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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:30:46 +0200
From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
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To: Gregor Jasny <gjasny@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86L does not get identified by Linux 2.6
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Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on my Cyrix 6x86L (notice the L) I've got the problem that it doesn't get 
> identified as a Cyrix processor. Instead it is treated as a common 486.
> 
> I think the problem is that the cpuid feature is not enabled after booting. So 
> init_cyrix which enables the cpuid feature is never called.
> 
> As a bad hack I've set the this_cpu pointer to cyrix in 
> common.c:identify_cpu():
> 
> this_cpu = cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_CYRIX];
> 
> Who is responsible for x86 CPU detection?
Hans Peter Arvin? Andrew Balsa?
> [ ... ]
Matthias-Christian Ott