On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the
> VIA Eden Processor?
(snip)
> I traced it down to this code, which is not in the standard kernel.org
> kernel-2.6.32.36:
> from kernel-2.6.32.36
> static void __cpuinit early_init_centaur(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> {
> switch (c->x86) {
>
>
> from 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.ayplus
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c
>
> static void __cpuinit early_init_centaur(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> {
> mark_hardware_unsupported("Centaur Processor"); <<<<<<<<<<
> switch (c->x86) {
Chances are you will not get a definitive answer from the CentOS
people. So, you'd need to ask those who actually added the code.
Question is whether this was done by Fedora or by RHEL devs.
Akemi
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