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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:30:39 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> Subject: Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message. On Thu 2008-05-29 11:35:08, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2008-05-29 02:13, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > >> > uname reports i686 on these chips. The rest is ridiculous. > >> > >> Intel started it first with picking up a ridiculous number for the family > >> ID for the P4 line. There is no technical justification for not keeping > >> these numbers consecutive. Or keeping it at 6 actually if the P4 is meant > >> to be seen by software as the Pentium Pro and the rest of the P6 gang. > > > > Yes, this is what we eventually ended up doing as causing fewest compatibility > > problems. For the message in question, it's better to be consistent with > > uname. > > Then again, should not all of the i?86 names be collapsed, > much like there is only "sparc" and "sparc64" for > the actual sparcv7, sparcv8, sparcv9, sparcv9a pseudo-arches > used in, for example rpm, etc. They should, but it is too late for that now. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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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