From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934188AbYD3W1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762696AbYD3W1e (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59889 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762604AbYD3W1d (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4818EB1E.3090700@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:56:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, kernel list Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) References: <20080429081729.GA3921@ucw.cz> <20080430213457.GD18536@elf.ucw.cz> <4818E777.2070702@zytor.com> <20080430215133.GE18536@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080430215133.GE18536@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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