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From: Dave Jones
Subject: Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message.
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 10:59 am

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:48:03PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 > 
 > On Wednesday 2008-05-28 18:57, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >Trying to boot a 64-bit kernel on a 32bit Pentium 4 gets
 > >you an amusing message along the lines of.
 > >"you need an x86-64, but you only have an i1586"
 > >due to the P4 being family F.  Munge it to be 686.
 > 
 > What is wrong with it? If i386, 486, 586 and 686 are valid names,
 > why should not 786 (or rather 1586... since someone thought it
 > would be cool to jump the number^1) be?

When you find the Intel literature that refers to the '786' or the '1586',
feel free to send a patch. In the meantime, we'll refer to it as
the rest of the world does.

	Dave

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[X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Dave Jones, (Wed May 28, 9:57 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 10:31 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 10:34 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Wed May 28, 10:48 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Wed May 28, 10:53 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Dave Jones, (Wed May 28, 10:59 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Wed May 28, 11:02 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 11:11 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Wed May 28, 11:25 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 12:30 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Wed May 28, 5:10 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 5:13 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Thu May 29, 2:35 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Pavel Machek, (Fri May 30, 1:30 pm)
RE: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Yuhong Bao, (Tue Oct 27, 8:08 pm)
RE: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Yuhong Bao, (Tue Oct 27, 8:39 pm)
RE: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Oct 28, 1:30 am)
RE: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Yuhong Bao, (Wed Oct 28, 7:46 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Dave Jones, (Wed Oct 28, 8:46 am)
RE: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Yuhong Bao, (Thu Oct 29, 9:33 am)