Re: [PATCH] x86: remove NexGen support

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179
> 
> Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for a long 
> time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being essentially 
> dead.
> 
> As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL above, 
> this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.
> 
> The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a 
> couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test, 
> which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo
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