Re: Pentiums with stepping = 5

Tuomas Heino (tbittih@xgw.fi)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:47:56 +0200 (EET)


On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Morgan Sarges wrote:

> Hello,
> Earlier on in this mailing-list, there was some discussion of
> /proc/cpuinfo reporting stepping =5, for the 586 I believe. The reply was
> to pass the kernel the command line option of mem=nopentium.
>
> The questions are:
>
> 1- Is stepping = 5 a 'bad thing' ?
>
> 2- Since I am not using lilo, how would I pass the command line option of
> mem=nopentium to the kernel?
>
If you're not using lilo what you're using? ... if loadlin do it same way
it does the other boot params (vga= ... or something;)

Now WHAT about stepping = 4 ? is IT a 'bad thing' ? ;)