Linux Versions Can't Handle Pentium 4
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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:15:54 -0500
From: "Fred A. Miller"
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:19:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Lenz Grimmer
It is unclear when some of these versions of Linux will be updated to work with the Pentium 4. Corel and SuSE could not immediately be reached for comment.
I am not aware, that they actually tried to reach us.
Intel, for its part, maintained that it was the fault of the Linux software companies that they had not kept pace with Intel's CPU release schedule.
Oh, if the kernel reports a new and previously unknown CPU as ?x86 is the distributor's fault? An interesting perspective.
"We went to everyone in the (Linux distribution) community" to ensure they had the CPUID information for the Pentium 4, said George Alfs, Intel's P4 spokesman. "We've had this information out there for quite a while--that's why Turbo and Red Hat already are in compliance."
Oh well. An updated boot disk can be obtained from here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/kernel/pentium4/ Just follow the README in the same directory and off you go. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Press [ESC] to detonate or any other key to explode .
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:46:30 -0600
From: Jeffrey Taylor
Linux Versions Can't Handle Pentium 4 ------------------------------------------------------------ Mary Jo Foley, CNET News.com
Chalk up to the list of Pentium 4 pitfalls the fact that not all versions of the Linux operating system support the new Intel processor.
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