From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message.
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:11:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483DA034.9060408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080528175941.GA4642@redhat.com>
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:48:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 2008-05-28 18:57, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > >Trying to boot a 64-bit kernel on a 32bit Pentium 4 gets
> > >you an amusing message along the lines of.
> > >"you need an x86-64, but you only have an i1586"
> > >due to the P4 being family F. Munge it to be 686.
> >
> > What is wrong with it? If i386, 486, 586 and 686 are valid names,
> > why should not 786 (or rather 1586... since someone thought it
> > would be cool to jump the number^1) be?
>
> When you find the Intel literature that refers to the '786' or the '1586',
> feel free to send a patch. In the meantime, we'll refer to it as
> the rest of the world does.
Actually, I have seen some Intel literature talking about the 786. This
was back when the 486 was new, and they wanted to impress how advanced
their roadmap was. Needless to say, it was completely bogus.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-28 16:57 [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message Dave Jones
2008-05-28 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-28 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-28 17:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 17:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-28 18:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 18:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-28 19:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-29 0:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-29 0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-29 9:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-30 20:30 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-28 3:08 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-28 8:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-10-28 14:46 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-28 15:46 ` Dave Jones
2009-10-29 16:33 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-28 3:39 ` Yuhong Bao
2008-05-28 17:59 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-28 18:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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