P133/32MB/AHA2940
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Andrew Derrick Balsa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the updated version of the Jumbo patch against a clean 2.0.35. What
> this patch does:
>
> - It fixes Cyrix 6x86 and 6x86L CPU detection.
> - Fixes bogomips calibration. (courtesy Richard Johnson).
> - Improves AMD CPU detection.
> - Has extended capability flags detection for AMD CPUs, code by Rob Dale
> (e.g. reports a new "3dnow" flag).
> - Inaugurates Centaur C6 detection.
> - Improves time.c code on CPUs with a Time Stamp Counter (fast code should work
> with APM now, also doesn't break with Centaur C6 step 0).
> - Reports MHz clock rates on CPUs with a TSC in /proc/cpuinfo.
> - Calibrates TSC at boot time (drift and jitter free).
> - Adds the single-line fix to the vt.c code buglet that affected e.g. minicom
> (this fix was posted last week on the list).
>
> I am sorry to be attaching the patch as a MIME base64 attachment, but even my
> uuencoded file seemed to have problems last time :-(
>
> Hope this one makes it intact.
>
> Thanks to all the people who tested and reported on the earlier patch revisions
> (BTW Rob tested it on an impressive list of CPUs: Intel 486, K6, K6-2, Intel
> Celeron; I tested it on Cyrix 6x86L, 6x86MX and MII; needed: C6 and Intel
> Pentium testers).
>
> Cheers,
> ---------------------
> Andrew D. Balsa
> andrebalsa@altern.org
>
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