Re: [PATCH] x86 setup fixes continued.

2000-10-25 Thread davej
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > o Pentium IV support. > >- Now recognised as i686 instead of i1586. > This seems wrong. It is/was. This has since been fixed in recent pre-patches for over a week now. Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej |

Re: [PATCH] x86 setup fixes continued.

2000-10-25 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> o Pentium IV support. >- Now recognised as i686 instead of i1586. This seems wrong. Remember that we are simply following the old pre-Pentium naming tradition. Since the "Pentium 4" does not use the old "P6" core (like the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celeron did) it is the n

[PATCH] x86 setup fixes continued.

2000-10-12 Thread davej
More improvements/fixups to arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Some of which are forward ports from 2.2.18pre, others have been accumulating/missing for a while. o Boot time 'disable_serial' option. (Taken from Similar routine by Andrea Arcangeli) o Inserted missing mcheck_init() call. o Pentium IV