Re: Non-Intel CPU support patch

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Wed, 21 May 1997 10:29:28 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Wed, 21 May 1997, Marco Mariani wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 1997, Mike Jagdis wrote:
>
> > This is the patch for Cyrix/AMD processors (again) against 2.1.39.
> > New in this release is a correction for swapped feature flags
> > on the AMD K5 model 0. If you have an AMD K5 model 0 please
>
> While I have a K5 model 0, it is not obvious to me how I should apply
> your patch without breaking it into pieces and apply them by hand (it
> has RCS stuff).

Patch knows how to handle it (although you may need a -p1 or -p0
depending how I made it today). Have faith!

> Linux shalott 2.1.39 #1 Wed May 21 02:27:38 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
> shalott:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu family : 5
> model : AMD-K5 (Model 0)
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> stepping : 1
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge
> bogomips : 198.66

Well, whaddaya know? It looks ok...

Mike

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