Re: [patch] remove nexgen detection from i386

2022-07-04 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 08:04:14PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: > The patch below removes the (small) amount of code used to identify NexGen > CPUs. I'm doubtful that these CPUs would be supported anymore and we don't > do anything with the information once we identify a NexGen CPU. > > The code

[patch] remove nexgen detection from i386

2022-07-04 Thread Daniel Dickman
The patch below removes the (small) amount of code used to identify NexGen CPUs. I'm doubtful that these CPUs would be supported anymore and we don't do anything with the information once we identify a NexGen CPU. The code does a division early in the i386 boot process (in locore0) and checks t