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Bug#410819: Please add VIA C7 processor definition



tags 410819 + pending
thanks

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:10, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> I am currently setting up a documentation to use the official Debian
> Installer with the official Debian kernels on that machine. Once done,
> I will put a link on the Debian Wiki.

OK, so that is targeted at supporting Etch?

> By default, only the -486 subarch is available at most, because
> /proc/cpuinfo is different from other x86 machines, i.e. neither
> AMD nor Intel... Therefore, I did a patch to get the -686 subarch
> available on that distinct hardware with all the flavours, e.g. xen,
> vserver, xen+vserver.

I have asked myself a little bit if it really makes sense to support such 
a very specific use case. As the patch is minimal and maintenance should 
be negligible, I guess it does not do any harm.

> Please consider the attached patch against the current SVN.

Thanks for providing the test case too.
Next time, please make sure your name is UTF-8 encoded in the changelog. 
Bonus points for marking the new changelog entry as UNRELEASED.

Cheers,
FJP

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