Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:47:56 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuomas Heino <> | Subject | Re: Pentiums with stepping = 5 |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Morgan Sarges wrote:
> Hello, > Earlier on in this mailing-list, there was some discussion of > /proc/cpuinfo reporting stepping =5, for the 586 I believe. The reply was > to pass the kernel the command line option of mem=nopentium. > > The questions are: > > 1- Is stepping = 5 a 'bad thing' ? > > 2- Since I am not using lilo, how would I pass the command line option of > mem=nopentium to the kernel? > If you're not using lilo what you're using? ... if loadlin do it same way it does the other boot params (vga= ... or something;)
Now WHAT about stepping = 4 ? is IT a 'bad thing' ? ;)
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