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