linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] i386: remove support for the Rise CPU

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Message-ID: <20070531174833.GA18959@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 13:48:33 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Christian Volkmann <haveaniceday@...sv.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	ak@...e.de, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] i386: remove support for the Rise CPU

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:37:52PM +0200, Christian Volkmann wrote:
 > The SIS550 chip uses the mP6 core according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP6
 > May be this code can improve the capability of these SIS550 system on a chip ?
 > 
 > But this should be a different story.

>From what I heard (I've seen nothing definitive) those chips identify
themselves differently.  ISTR that their vendor string is "SIS SIS SIS "

	Dave

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