[X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed May 28 2008 - 13:13:07 EST


Trying to boot a 64-bit kernel on a 32bit Pentium 4 gets
you an amusing message along the lines of.
"you need an x86-64, but you only have an i1586"
due to the P4 being family F. Munge it to be 686.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
index 00e19ed..882c839 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ static char *cpu_name(int level)
if (level == 64) {
return "x86-64";
} else {
+ if (level == 15)
+ level = 6;
sprintf(buf, "i%d86", level);
return buf;
}

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