Re: Cyrix Detection hangs machine on 2.0.35, 2.0.36pre13, and late 2.1.1xx
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:41:46 +0100 (BST)
> enable CPUID. The problems does still appear with 2.0.36pre15. I added a
> few lines of code to bugs.h to test for 6x86 before playing with CPUID and
> changed the order in head.S to do the same. It's pretty illogical to try to
> enable something that you're not sure is there before testing for chips that
> you know don't have the feature. Anyway, the other solution may be to port
> the 2.1.125 CPU stuff to 2.0.xx. Any hope of that?
If people send me patches then yes. This may well account for the 2.0.35/6
problem with a few strange TI cpus
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