Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:24:25 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > >> P4 has been coming out as CPU_FAMILY=4 instead of 6: fix MPENTIUM4 >> typo. > > thanks Hugh, applied. > > Ingo
The patch is correct, obviously; the comment is not: the real comment should be:
Enable the use of P6 NOPs on Pentium 4
The CPU_FAMILY field is really the minimum CPU family that can boot the kernel (that's why there is no 5; we don't have any i586 family dependencies not encoded by CPUID bits.)
-hpa
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