Re: cyrix III by via

2000-12-07 Thread davej
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Eric Estabrooks wrote: > A test probably needs to be added in the centaur_model section to test > for the cyrixIII in disguise. 2.2.18pre, and 2.4.0test have contained this test for some time now. However, I've heard no reports of it working or not due to no-one having the ne

Re: cyrix III by via

2000-12-07 Thread Alan Cox
> The cyrixIII chips by via have the centaur vendor id which causes the > identify_cpu call in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c to fail. It is probably > reasonable for it to have the centaur id as via owns centaur as well. I > just replaced the centaur_model call with the cyrix_model one, but I > know

cyrix III by via

2000-12-07 Thread Eric Estabrooks
I am not a subscriber to this list, but I thought this was important information (which you might already have). The cyrixIII chips by via have the centaur vendor id which causes the identify_cpu call in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c to fail. It is probably reasonable for it to have the centaur id as