From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:41:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4818E777.2070702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430213457.GD18536@elf.ucw.cz>
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.
>
Doesn't mean it shipped in anything other than sample or sample-like
quantities.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 21:42 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20080429081729.GA3921@ucw.cz>
2008-04-30 21:34 ` [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) Pavel Machek
2008-04-30 21:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-30 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-30 21:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-30 21:45 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-30 22:15 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
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