From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: estabroo@talkware.net (Eric Estabrooks)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cyrix III by via
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:17:43 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E144BEP-0003DP-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A3024D4.EDA13485@talkware.net> from "Eric Estabrooks" at Dec 07, 2000 06:01:24 PM
> The cyrixIII chips by via have the centaur vendor id which causes the
> identify_cpu call in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c to fail. It is probably
> reasonable for it to have the centaur id as via owns centaur as well. I
> just replaced the centaur_model call with the cyrix_model one, but I
> know that I am using a cyrix chip.
>
> A test probably needs to be added in the centaur_model section to test
> for the cyrixIII in disguise.
>
> The error is a general protection fault.
>
> Sorry if this is old hat,
Its fairly new hat. VIA cyrix III is a next generation IDT winchip (VIA bought
both the winchip stuff and the Cyrix stuff). 2.2.18 should handle the
winchip properly
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2000-12-08 0:01 Eric Estabrooks
2000-12-08 0:17 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-12-08 1:08 ` davej
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