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From: Dave Jones <davej@...>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>
Subject: Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message.
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 1:59 pm

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, 12:57 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Wed May 28, 1:48 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Wed May 28, 1:53 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Wed May 28, 2:02 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Wed May 28, 2:25 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 3:30 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Maciej W. Rozycki, (Wed May 28, 8:10 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 8:13 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Jan Engelhardt, (Thu May 29, 5:35 am)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Pavel Machek, (Fri May 30, 4:30 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., Dave Jones, (Wed May 28, 1:59 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 2:11 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 1:34 pm)
Re: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed May 28, 1:31 pm)