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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)
Pavel Machek пишет:
> 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.

The main reason for removing the NexGen support was that the latter
had effectively been broken for G-d knows how many years. As a person
somehow involved into embedded development, I simply could not resist
to trim a few dozen bytes of dead binary code off vmlinux. Besides,
the change is trivially revertable (just checked that), and in case
that somebody owns a NexGen box and complains, that can be addressed
in a matter of minutes.

Dmitri

>
> Pavel
>

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