Re: NexGen Nx586: documentation error?

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:05:42 -0400 (EDT)

The docs are wrong. The Nx586 is actually a very fast 386. It does not
support bswap or wpbit stuff.. Apps must be compiled with -m386 or they
will not works.

On 13 Jul 1999, Ian Soboroff wrote:

>
> 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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