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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: a P4 is a P6 not an i486
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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