x86: remove NexGen support

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>
This commit is contained in:
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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@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86 {
#define X86_VENDOR_CYRIX 1
#define X86_VENDOR_AMD 2
#define X86_VENDOR_UMC 3
#define X86_VENDOR_NEXGEN 4
#define X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR 5
#define X86_VENDOR_TRANSMETA 7
#define X86_VENDOR_NSC 8