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SubjectWhy no Cyrix patch in 2.1.20?
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Linus,

Could you please apply the appropriate parts of the latest cyrix patch to the
next kernel?

The VSPM options are known to give problems, but everything else is very
useful, and could save a few cyrix users some concerns about heat.

Byron

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From: mike@toaster.roan.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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Subject: Definitive Cyrix patch #3
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:16:21 GMT
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This is version 3 of the Cyrix patch. It is against 2.1.7 (or so)
but should patch cleanly against later 2.1s from reading the
patches (other than Documentation/Configure.help).

This adds some optional tweaking of performance features on
the 6x86 and, completely new in this patch, the 5x86. If you
enable the VSPM option for the 6x86 it works around the known
wierdness.

I have a couple of reports that a revision 4 6x86 sometimes
freezes. I suspect this a problem with suspend on halt but
have not been able to confirm it yet. If you have this problem
try deleting the half dozen lines in arch/i386/kernel/head.S
that set SUSP_HLT and let me know if it works.

All other bugs are currently unknown so tell me about them :-).

Mike

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