Re: Cyrix 6x86 patches and problems

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:04:12 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Brian Gerst wrote:
> The kernel should at least be able to *identify* a cyrix processor as a
> cyrix instead of a 486, and that would require patching the kernel. The
> performance options probably should be left to user space though.
>

Brian,
Try the patch I posted last week. It completely redid the cpu
identification stuff so that chips would get id'd correctly. I'm going to
send it to you privately as well...

Pat

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