Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 May 2008 02:15:23 +0400 | From | Dmitri Vorobiev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) |
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Pavel Machek пишет: > Hi! > >> 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. > > Are you sure it never shipped? Wikipedia seems to suggest it did ship. > > http://www.cpu-info.com/index2.php?mainid=Nx586&page=5 > > ...FPU for nexgen was never shipped, that implies that CPU did ship.
The main reason for removing the NexGen support was that the latter had effectively been broken for G-d knows how many years. As a person somehow involved into embedded development, I simply could not resist to trim a few dozen bytes of dead binary code off vmlinux. Besides, the change is trivially revertable (just checked that), and in case that somebody owns a NexGen box and complains, that can be addressed in a matter of minutes.
Dmitri
> > Pavel >
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