Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:02:02 +0400 | From | Dmitri Vorobiev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: remove unused code and data in nexgen.c |
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Alan Cox пишет: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:34:53 -0400 > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: >>>> Also NexGen was never shipped anyways, but bought by AMD and became >>>> the K6. So I assume whatever this file is supposed to do is done >>>> by amd.c anyways. >>> IOW, you claim that now it's safe enough to throw away the NexGen >>> altogether? >>> >> If it never shipped, then yes, it should be safe to remove. We don't >> support other vendors that never went to product, e.g. RISE or Montalvo. > > There are/were a few Nexgen boxes out there - strange beast where the > BIOS code emulated some instructions. So few I doubt killing it off is a > problem at all.
The patch that kills the NexGen is already in Ingo's x86 tree, therefore the beast is dead, at least from the kernel viewpoint.
Thanks, Dmitri
> > Alan >
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