Messages in this thread | | | From | Ondrej Zary <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd) | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:45:10 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 April 2008 23:34:58 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. > > Pavel
Exactly. Nx686 is the one that was turned into AMD K6.
-- Ondrej Zary
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