Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support (fwd)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 17:42:29 EST


Pavel Machek wrote:
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.


Doesn't mean it shipped in anything other than sample or sample-like quantities.

-hpa
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