Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

From: Nuno Monteiro
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 14:29:59 EST



On 2005.03.02 08:02, Dave Jones wrote:

The Winchips never really sold that well, and stopped being produced
when IDT sold off Centaur. It was a niche processor in 1997. In 2005,
I'll be surprised if there are that many of them still working.
Mine lost its magic smoke for no reason around ~2002.

If there are any of them still being used out there, I'd be even
more surprised if they're running 2.6. Then again, there are
probably loonies out there running it on 386/486's. 8-)


Heh. Let me brag about it a little:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : WinChip C6
stepping : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de msr mce cx8 mmx centaur_mcr cid
bogomips : 399.76

$ uname -a
Linux kawasaki 2.6.10-rc3 #3 Fri Dec 17 21:44:53 CET 2004 i586 unknown

$ uptime
19:00:14 up 58 days, 1:21, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.17, 0.11

Running 2.6 at least since 2.6.0-test11-wli-something, dated Dec 6 2003 according to /boot (may have been running other 2.6-test before, but I dont have them around any longer):

$ ls -al /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test11
-rw-r----- 1 root root 840607 Dec 6 2003 /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.0-test11-wli


Not a single hiccup, so far *knock on wood*. Bragging even further, I also have a genuine 80386 DX 33 up and running, although that one is still on 2.0.37, iirc.

Oh, yes, I'm a loonie ;-)


Regards,


Nuno

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