Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 May 2005 22:23:26 +0200 | From | Matthias-Christian Ott <> | Subject | Re: What happened to Cyrix 6x86 support in 2.6? |
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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. > > Can somebody explain this behavior? Was support for Cyrix 6x86 dropped? > > Cheers, > Gregor > - > 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/ > An hafl hour ago my cyrix with 150 Mhz was runnig very good with Fedora 4 Test 1.
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