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x86: remove NexGen support

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It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179

Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for
a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being
essentially dead.

As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL
above, this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.

The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a
couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test,
which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-21 00:47:55 +04:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent a2b4bd9c95
commit f7f17a67c5
5 changed files with 5 additions and 66 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
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@@ -566,9 +566,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
/*
* Test if the WP bit works in supervisor mode. It isn't supported on 386's
* and also on some strange 486's (NexGen etc.). All 586+'s are OK. This
* used to involve black magic jumps to work around some nasty CPU bugs,
* but fortunately the switch to using exceptions got rid of all that.
* and also on some strange 486's. All 586+'s are OK. This used to involve
* black magic jumps to work around some nasty CPU bugs, but fortunately the
* switch to using exceptions got rid of all that.
*/
static void __init test_wp_bit(void)
{