no problems w/2.0.35/6x86L P166 (was Re: CyrixInstead ?)

Paul Duncan (p_duncan@efn.org)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:46:48 -0700 (PDT)


On 2 Aug 1998, Nicolai P Guba wrote:

[snipped, for my sanity (and yours, too)]
>
> I certainly would, but then the CPU is not detected as Cyrix. Thus my message.

Subject says it all. No detection problems with kernel 2.0.35, Cyrix 6x86
P166 processor (except it could be faster :)..).

[rest o' message]
> ADB> All the above remarks apply to 2.0.x kernels. I am not current on 2.1.x
> ADB> kernel code. Please correct if I am missing something.
>
> I've found this problem with the later 2.0.35 and 2.1.x kernels, both
> advertising Cyrix detection.
>
> --
> 00000000: 4e69 636f 6c61 6920 5020 4775 6261 2c20 Nicolai P Guba,
> 00000010: 4253 4328 486f 6e73 292c 2041 5254 2c20 BSC(Hons), ART,
> 00000020: 4272 6974 6973 6820 5465 6c65 636f 6d20 British Telecom
> 00000030: 4c61 6273 2c20 554b Labs, UK
>

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