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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:25:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421122530.GG6788@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208724475-15360-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>


* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179
> 
> Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for a long 
> time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being essentially 
> dead.
> 
> As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL above, 
> this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.
> 
> The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a 
> couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test, 
> which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-20 20:47 Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-21 12:25 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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