: There are no 801586 CPUs.  It looks like something's trying to cover all 
bases 
: - ie, 80186 - 80586, and failing miserably at it.

  Pentium IVs report themselves as 801586s - see the Linux 2.2.18
announcement at <http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/12/11/178>:

> The major thrust has been support for processors running in
> excess of 2GHz, support for the CyrixIII processor and also
> basic support for the Pentium IV. Unfortunately Intel chose to
> ignore all precedent in model numbering via cpuid and report a
> family of '15'. This sudden jump broke assumptions in the
> kernel tree without any warning.
 
  My recollection, possibly faulty, is that Intel chose 801586 because
Windows NT refused to boot on an 80886 (it only checked the bottom 3 bits
of the family number and thought it was on an 8086).

-- 
John Elliott

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