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author | Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> | 2008-04-21 00:47:55 +0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-04-26 19:35:47 +0400 |
commit | f7f17a67c589f031c567d9fdc809dee7c5868c8a (patch) | |
tree | 1022dde20e24c97919a334adcc75b3bc31ee1c70 /arch | |
parent | a2b4bd9c95a799ce1002e699187f17ddaa754eb1 (diff) | |
download | linux-f7f17a67c589f031c567d9fdc809dee7c5868c8a.tar.xz |
x86: remove NexGen support
It is claimed that NexGen CPUs were never shipped:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/179
Also, the kernel support for these chips has been broken for
a long time, the code intended to support NexGen thereby being
essentially dead.
As an outcome of the discussion that can be found using the URL
above, this patch removes the NexGen support altogether.
The changes in this patch survived a defconfig build for i386, a
couple of successful randconfig builds, as well as a runtime test,
which consisted in booting a 32-bit x86 box up to the shell prompt.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/nexgen.c | 59 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 6 |
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 65 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu index 57072f2716f9..4da3cdb9c1b1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ config M386 Here are the settings recommended for greatest speed: - "386" for the AMD/Cyrix/Intel 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/SX, Cyrix/TI - 486DLC/DLC2, UMC 486SX-S and NexGen Nx586. Only "386" kernels - will run on a 386 class machine. + 486DLC/DLC2, and UMC 486SX-S. Only "386" kernels will run on a 386 + class machine. - "486" for the AMD/Cyrix/IBM/Intel 486DX/DX2/DX4 or SL/SLC/SLC2/SLC3/SX/SX2 and UMC U5D or U5S. - "586" for generic Pentium CPUs lacking the TSC diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile index ee7c45235e54..a0c6f8190887 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += cyrix.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += centaur.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += transmeta.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += intel.o -obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += nexgen.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += umc.o obj-$(CONFIG_X86_MCE) += mcheck/ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/nexgen.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/nexgen.c deleted file mode 100644 index 5d5e1c134123..000000000000 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/nexgen.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,59 +0,0 @@ -#include <linux/kernel.h> -#include <linux/init.h> -#include <linux/string.h> -#include <asm/processor.h> - -#include "cpu.h" - -/* - * Detect a NexGen CPU running without BIOS hypercode new enough - * to have CPUID. (Thanks to Herbert Oppmann) - */ - -static int __cpuinit deep_magic_nexgen_probe(void) -{ - int ret; - - __asm__ __volatile__ ( - " movw $0x5555, %%ax\n" - " xorw %%dx,%%dx\n" - " movw $2, %%cx\n" - " divw %%cx\n" - " movl $0, %%eax\n" - " jnz 1f\n" - " movl $1, %%eax\n" - "1:\n" - : "=a" (ret) : : "cx", "dx"); - return ret; -} - -static void __cpuinit init_nexgen(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) -{ - c->x86_cache_size = 256; /* A few had 1 MB... */ -} - -static void __cpuinit nexgen_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) -{ - /* Detect NexGen with old hypercode */ - if (deep_magic_nexgen_probe()) - strcpy(c->x86_vendor_id, "NexGenDriven"); -} - -static struct cpu_dev nexgen_cpu_dev __cpuinitdata = { - .c_vendor = "Nexgen", - .c_ident = { "NexGenDriven" }, - .c_models = { - { .vendor = X86_VENDOR_NEXGEN, - .family = 5, - .model_names = { [1] = "Nx586" } - }, - }, - .c_init = init_nexgen, - .c_identify = nexgen_identify, -}; - -int __init nexgen_init_cpu(void) -{ - cpu_devs[X86_VENDOR_NEXGEN] = &nexgen_cpu_dev; - return 0; -} diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c index baf7c4f643c8..4a4761892951 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c @@ -566,9 +566,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void) /* * Test if the WP bit works in supervisor mode. It isn't supported on 386's - * and also on some strange 486's (NexGen etc.). All 586+'s are OK. This - * used to involve black magic jumps to work around some nasty CPU bugs, - * but fortunately the switch to using exceptions got rid of all that. + * and also on some strange 486's. All 586+'s are OK. This used to involve + * black magic jumps to work around some nasty CPU bugs, but fortunately the + * switch to using exceptions got rid of all that. */ static void __init test_wp_bit(void) { |