[CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com> 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