On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the VIA Eden Processor?
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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