From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757077AbYDUMZz (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:25:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756404AbYDUMZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:25:44 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:60590 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756368AbYDUMZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:25:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:25:30 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dmitri Vorobiev Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support Message-ID: <20080421122530.GG6788@elte.hu> References: <1208724475-15360-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1208724475-15360-1-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Dmitri Vorobiev 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