From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:56:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4818EB1E.3090700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080430215133.GE18536@elf.ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> http://www.cpu-info.com/index2.php?mainid=Nx586&page=7
>
> I do not know how many were really shipped, and yes, they seem to be
> pretty uncommon, but it sounds like more than samples. Actually, some
> seem to be for sale on ebay ;-).
>
Cool. If someone is willing to pick one up and maintain this fairly
trivial amount of code we can resurrect it; given that the code had been
broken for several releases seem to indicate noone really cares.
(Also note that the removal will not prevent the kernel from actually
running on these chips; in fact, it might actually make them work.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-04-30 21:34 ` [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) Pavel Machek
2008-04-30 21:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-30 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-30 21:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-30 21:45 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-04-30 22:15 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
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