2005-02-27 22:11:39

by Kianusch Sayah Karadji

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Subject: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

Hi!

This is a small patch for GEODE CPU support in Kernel 2.6.10.

Those CPU's are found mostly in embedded systems ... one of the most
prominent Hardware using GEODE CPU is probably soekris net4801
(http://www.soekris.com).

This patch has been on my homepage
(http://www.sk-tech.net/support/soekris.html) for quite a time - but I've
been asked several time to have it included in the main kernel.

Regards
Kianusch


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2005-02-28 22:39:25

by Henrik Brix Andersen

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Subject: Re: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 23:11 +0100, Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote:
> This is a small patch for GEODE CPU support in Kernel 2.6.10.

I would very much welcome the addition of MGEODE. The in-kernel SCx200
drivers could also benefit from this (they should depend on MGEODE).

Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <[email protected]>

./Brix
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Gentoo Linux


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2005-03-02 12:53:23

by David Vrabel

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Subject: Re: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote:
>
> This is a small patch for GEODE CPU support in Kernel 2.6.10.
> [...]
> + - "MediaGX/Geode" for Cyrix MediaGX aka Geode.

How about changing this to:

- "Geode/MediaGX" for the AMD (formerly National) Geode family
and the Cyrix MediaGX.

And similarly for the MGEODE option and help text? Since the AMD Geode
family is current and the MediaGX is old. And perhaps expand the help
text to list the various SoCs since it's not immediately obvious from
their names that they have a Geode core?

David Vrabel
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Arcom, Clifton Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 411200 ext. 3233
Cambridge CB1 7EA, UK Web: http://www.arcom.com/

2005-03-03 22:24:11

by Alan

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Subject: Re: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

I'm not sure the change is any better. AMD now use Geode for two totally
unrelated CPU families and they need different configuration.