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Message-ID: <4818EF7B.4040202@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 02:15:23 +0400 From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> CC: mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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