Re: [2.1.105] Cyrix 6x86 reduced to 486
Adam Sulmicki (adam@cfar.umd.edu)
Tue, 09 Jun 1998 19:01:50 -0400
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980609151208.1889A-100000@earth.terran.org>, "B. Jame
s Phillippe" writes:
->Greetings,
->
-> I just strapped on 2.1.105 last night for kicks (up from 2.1.88,
->which is the last 2.1.x that's been solid for me). It seemed to work
->fairly well (ie., it didn't crash on bootup). The exceptions were 1.) my
->Cyrix 6x86 is once again an unknown 486. I did compile choosing
->Pentium/6x86.
AFAIK, it is b/c cyrix probing and Intel's BX chipsets did not like
each other.
Intel got right of way, and Cryix detection got disabled for now.
I think it is going to come back with TSC path or something like that.
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