Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262427AbVCBTZF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:25:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262432AbVCBTXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:23:13 -0500 Received: from zeus.bragatel.pt ([217.70.64.253]:62985 "HELO mail.bragatel.pt") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262427AbVCBTSf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:18:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:14:10 +0000 From: Nuno Monteiro To: Dave Jones Cc: Andries Brouwer , Alan Cox , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code Message-ID: <20050302191410.GA9292@hobbes.itsari.int> References: <20050228192001.GA14221@apps.cwi.nl> <1109721162.15795.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050302075037.GH20190@apps.cwi.nl> <20050302080255.GA28512@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; Format=Flowed DelSp=Yes Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20050302080255.GA28512@redhat.com> (from davej@redhat.com on Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:02:55 +0000) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1885 Lines: 65 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/