Re: Pentium IV-summary

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 17:45:03 EST


> Is this revamp only for processors that actually support the
> CPUID-instruction, or will you fix the CPU-detection for non-CPUID
> processors too?! There are quite a few processors that can be detected
> properly but aren't (for instance, IBM 486slc/slc2/slc3)

Linus refused code to ident the ones that didnt matter because the code was
(neccessarily) obscure, weird and didn't change anything but the string in
procfs.

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