Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:41:11 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > 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. >
Doesn't mean it shipped in anything other than sample or sample-like quantities.
-hpa
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