Re: Ultimate Cyrix CPU detection [PATCH] 2.1.108

Rafael Reilova (rreilova@ececs.uc.edu)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 14:18:07 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Rafael Reilova wrote:

>>>> The patch also decodes the silicon stepping numbers to match those printed
>>>> on-chip and in publications. Supports extended cpuid levels for the Mxi

>>> Can't say if it works or not.. 108 has these display problems..

>> You mean the scrollback buffer, right? Using cat /proc/cpuinfo and
>> dmesg | more should let you confirm if the detection was correct.

> Actually, no. I mean the black-on-black problem: it boots, but nothing
> gets out past the decompressing message, and keyboard doesnt work. With
> vgafb, some new lines are displayed but thats all.

Do you have an older source tree around? The files touched by the patch
haven't changed in a long time. I believe it should patch anything after
2.1.103 and very likely trees even further back.

Cheers,

Rafael

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