> Just out of curiosity, I was looking in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c and
> it appears that the AMD K6 is set as a family 5 cpu along with the K5.
> I could be wrong, but isn't the K6 a 6th generation cpu, or does the
> chip itself actually report itself being a 5th generation cpu?
Roy,
The K6 returns that it is a family 5 cpu. The only non-Intel chip that
identifies itself as a family 6 cpu is the Cyrix 6X86MX...
Pat
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