At 10:37 PM 29/04/00 +1000, Ken Yap wrote:
>Ok, I looked at the AMD site and there is the K5, which is not the one I
>had in mind, and the AMD 486, which definitely works. The one I remember
>was labelled 586 but was actually a 486. This is probably Cyrix which
>got a bad reputation with their early offerings. Unfortunately since
>VIA took over Cyrix, they have thrown out all the old docs.
Yeah sorry this one is labelled AMD 486DX4-133.
>So I looked in the kernel source, and in setup.c I found:
>
><snip>
>
>I'll leave it to the keen to look at the code and decode what it all
>means, but it seem to indicate that there is something dodgy about some
>of Cyrix's early processors.
I'd believe it from Cyrix, they used to run their chips alot harder than
intel to try and get more bang for the customers buck.. which often came
back to bite them..
Paul
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