Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 06 Nov 1997 20:13:40 +0100 | | From | Andre Derrick Balsa <> | | Subject | Re: Cyrix patch : Proposal? |
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Hi Brian,
Brian Gerst wrote: > ... > Another thing set6x86 cannot do is make /proc/cpuinfo show the correct > information instead of just reporting an unknown 486. This has been by > biggest peeve with cyrix processors (cpuid is disabled on bootup). > Granted this is mostly cosmetic, but it still is the right thing to do. > > If the patch were stripped down to just do the cpu detection, and leave > the configuration up to set6x86 (except for enabling cpuid), would you > object to that? > No, that would be fine. You will find such a stripped-down patch at http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix.
Cheers,
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