Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261716AbVEUPYS (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 11:24:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261595AbVEUPYS (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 11:24:18 -0400 Received: from mailhub3.nextra.sk ([195.168.1.146]:29966 "EHLO mailhub3.nextra.sk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261716AbVEUPYO (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 May 2005 11:24:14 -0400 Message-ID: <428F52A2.4060905@rainbow-software.org> Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 17:24:18 +0200 From: Ondrej Zary User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregor Jasny CC: LKML Subject: Re: What happened to Cyrix 6x86 support in 2.6? References: <200505211625.56664.gjasny@web.de> In-Reply-To: <200505211625.56664.gjasny@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 32 Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old machine with a Cyrix 6x86 processor. When running Linux 2.4 it is recognized as a Cyrix and MTRR is enabled: > > kernel: Linux version 2.4.22 (root@Rincewind) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #2 Fri Nov 28 15:43:13 CET 2003 > ... > kernel: Enabling CPUID on Cyrix processor. > kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 00000105 00000000 00000000 00000004 > kernel: CPU: Common caps: 00000105 00000000 00000000 00000004 > kernel: CPU: Cyrix 6x86L 2x Core/Bus Clock stepping 02 > > But when I boot a Linux 2.6 kernel with CONFIG_M586=y it recognizes only a 486. Something like that also happened with my UMC 486. It's now detected as: Linux version 2.6.8.1-router (root@pentium) (gcc version 3.3.4) #1 Thu Sep 9 12:42:25 CEST 2004 ... CPU: After generic identify, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After all inits, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: UMC UMC UMC ff/02 stepping 03 It used to be detected more nicely in 2.4.x (I don't remember exact string). -- Ondrej Zary - 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/