Thor Lancelot Simon said:
> 
> My officemate and I decided to see why the Cyrix 6x86 in my machine at home
> wasn't being recognized as a Pentium or printing out the reputed "CyrixInstead"
> vendor string.  After a few hours of digging in Cyrix and Intel manuals
> we've got some patches to locore.s, machdep.c, and a few header files so that
> the Cyrix is recognized, a few features are or can be turned on that aren't
> on the Pentium, and since we were playing around in there anyway, the system
> now knows about the P6 and has a CPU class for it.
> 
> Seems to work OK on the Cyrix, and we didn't break anything on the Pentium,
> since this machine is running OK.  Anyone with a P6 care to see if it works?
> Send me email.
> 

I have a Cyrix 6x86 here, and I'd like to test your new locore on it
(Just to see if this could solve the 'bad performances' problem I had
with this CPU). Could you please send me a copy of your locore.s ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique
email: bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr
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