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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:34:58 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)

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

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