Commit 11af32b6 authored Nov 29, 2012 by H. Peter Anvin

x86, 386 removal: Document Nx586 as a 386 and thus unsupported

Per Alan Cox, Nx586 did not support WP in supervisor mode, making it a
386 by Linux kernel standards. As such, it is too unsupported now.

Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121128205203.05868eab@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

parent 45c39fb0

arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu

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		@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ config M486

		Note that the 386 is no longer supported, this includes
		AMD/Cyrix/Intel 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/SX, Cyrix/TI 486DLC/DLC2,
		and UMC 486SX-S.
		UMC 486SX-S and the NexGen Nx586.

		The kernel will not necessarily run on earlier architectures than
		the one you have chosen, e.g. a Pentium optimized kernel will run on