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