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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support

* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179
>
> Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for a long
> time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being essentially
> dead.
>
> As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL above,
> this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.
>
> The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a
> couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test,
> which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.

thanks, applied.

Ingo


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