Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

[Nuno Monteiro <nuno@itsari.org>]

On 2005.03.02 08:02, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> The Winchips never really sold that well, and stopped being produced
> when IDT sold off Centaur.  It was a niche processor in 1997. In 2005,
> I'll be surprised if there are that many of them still working.
> Mine lost its magic smoke for no reason around ~2002.
> 
> If there are any of them still being used out there, I'd be even
> more surprised if they're running 2.6.  Then again, there are
> probably loonies out there running it on 386/486's. 8-)
>

Heh. Let me brag about it a little:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 5
model           : 4
model name      : WinChip C6
stepping        : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de msr mce cx8 mmx centaur_mcr cid
bogomips        : 399.76

$ uname -a
Linux kawasaki 2.6.10-rc3 #3 Fri Dec 17 21:44:53 CET 2004 i586 unknown

$ uptime
 19:00:14 up 58 days,  1:21,  1 user,  load average: 0.37, 0.17, 0.11

Running 2.6 at least since 2.6.0-test11-wli-something, dated Dec 6 2003  
according to /boot (may have been running other 2.6-test before, but I  
dont have them around any longer):

$ ls -al /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test11
-rw-r-----    1 root     root       840607 Dec  6  2003 /boot/vmlinuz- 
2.6.0-test11-wli


Not a single hiccup, so far *knock on wood*. Bragging even further, I  
also have a genuine 80386 DX 33 up and running, although that one is  
still on 2.0.37, iirc.

Oh, yes, I'm a loonie ;-)


Regards,


		Nuno