NexGen Nx586: documentation error?

Ian Soboroff (ian@cs.umbc.edu)
13 Jul 1999 10:32:55 -0400

In Documentation/Configure.help, the help for Proceesor family
recommends selecting '486' for a NexGen Nx586. I have one of these
beasts, and choosing this fails to boot because the Nx586 apparently
does not honor the WP bit. I could only manage to boot a kernel
compiled for 386 and including FP emulation.

Is there a BIOS setting I need to frob, or is a documentation error?
If someone else with a NexGen Nx586 could chime in, I'll put together
the patch if it's indeed the help that's wrong.

ian

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Ian Soboroff                                       ian@cs.umbc.edu
University of MD Baltimore County      http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian


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