> Actually, although I'm not certain, I think what confused me is that it
> used to say "486" on a stock RedHat 5.0 installation. (eg 2.0.32)
>
> I must've skipped over it blindly and thought it said CPU family 0 or
> something, because it was missing 486 and just had family 4.
Older kernels reported 'cpu: x86' where 'x' was the CPU family, which is
confusing in general (you can have a CPU called <something>586 having a 486
instruction set), so it got replaced by CPU family.
Have a nice fortnight
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