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SubjectRe: Cyrix patch : Proposal?
Hi!

> Teunis, I would *not* want to see the (fixed) 2.1.39 Cyrix patch go into
> the kernel source, as it stands now.
>
> I have a simple technical reason, and a more "philosophical" reason for
> this.

1) all delays will be wrong if you use set6x86 after boot, because
bogomips will have slower value. This is fatal.
2) it is needed for proper CPU detection.
3) I thought that it was you who found 6x86MX oopsing in
fast_get_timer(). To workaround this you need CPU detection, which is
main part of Cyrix patches.

Pavel

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I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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