Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Michael J. Micek" <> | Subject | Re: Nx586 - NexGen work fine with Linux??? | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 09:38:09 -0700 (PDT) |
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> >Does anybody have a Linux installed at NexGen Nx586 machines??
Many do.
> Other strange happennings are that I can only compile as a 386 > machine as the kernel seems to think I have a 386 (perhaps theres a kludge > for my bios) and if I modify bugs.h to allow a 486 or 586 compiled kernel > run on my 586 it crashes as soon as the "AHA1540-2" and associated nits > have finished I get an unknown opcode 0000.
Not *so* strange... the Nx586 is 386 compatible, but not 486 or pentium, because these chips added cache control instructions that the Nx586 doesn't even need due (I believe) to its on-chip cache controller.
Please check out:
> To: nelson-nexgen@emlist.com > > The patch for NexGen under Linux-1.3.82+ is now available > on the web page http://www.cantrip.org/ncm.html . If you > have it already, it hasn't changed.
[This patch still works fine against 1.3.97.]
> If anybody has a kernel built using it, and can measure a > difference in performance of anything with and without it, > please post your measurements to this list. > > (NB: The patch includes a configuration choice for CPU. So > after you apply the patch, you need to reconfigure!) > > Nathan Myers > ncm@cantrip.org http://www.cantrip.org/
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