Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:34:58 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) |
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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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