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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:41:11 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)
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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