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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-11-30 01:28:39 +0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2012-11-30 01:28:39 +0400 |
| commit | 11af32b69ef7ee64c7d8848cad71a6f3749d9e37 (patch) | |
| tree | b56ff1734f9e3dd27623e408c735144d48c4cd58 | |
| parent | 45c39fb0cc20d24da08d5bb159f57d191098104d (diff) | |
| download | linux-11af32b69ef7ee64c7d8848cad71a6f3749d9e37.tar.xz | |
x86, 386 removal: Document Nx586 as a 386 and thus unsupported
Per Alan Cox, Nx586 did not support WP in supervisor mode, making it a
386 by Linux kernel standards. As such, it is too unsupported now.
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121128205203.05868eab@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index 423db7189eb9..c026cca5602c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ config M486 Note that the 386 is no longer supported, this includes AMD/Cyrix/Intel 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/SX, Cyrix/TI 486DLC/DLC2, - and UMC 486SX-S. + UMC 486SX-S and the NexGen Nx586. The kernel will not necessarily run on earlier architectures than the one you have chosen, e.g. a Pentium optimized kernel will run on |