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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)
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.

Pavel

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