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Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hi,> > I have an old machine with a Cyrix 6x86 processor. When running Linux 2.4 it is recognized as a Cyrix and MTRR is enabled: > > kernel: Linux version 2.4.22 (root@Rincewind) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 Fri Nov 28 15:43:13 CET 2003 > ...> kernel: Enabling CPUID on Cyrix processor.> kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 00000105 00000000 00000000 00000004 > kernel: CPU: Common caps: 00000105 00000000 00000000 00000004 > kernel: CPU: Cyrix 6x86L 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 02 > > But when I boot a Linux 2.6 kernel with CONFIG_M586=y it recognizes only a 486. Something like that also happened with my UMC 486. It's now detected as: Linux version 2.6.8.1-router (root@pentium) (gcc version 3.3.4) #1 Thu Sep 9 12:42:25 CEST 2004 ... CPU: After generic identify, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After all inits, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: UMC UMC UMC ff/02 stepping 03 It used to be detected more nicely in 2.4.x (I don't remember exact string). -- Ondrej Zary - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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