Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:02:01 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: KATO Takenori <kato@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c Message-ID: <200001291102.LAA02201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from KATO Takenori <kato@FreeBSD.org> of "Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:49:03 PST." <200001290749.XAA78364@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> kato 2000/01/28 23:49:03 PST > > Modified files: > sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c > Log: > Simplify messages of Pentium II, Pentium II Xeon, Celeron, Pentium III > and Pentium III Xeon CPUs. If a CPU is one of Pentium II, Pentium II > Xeon and Celeron, the message is always "Pentium II/Pentium II > Xeon/Celeron". If a CPU is one of Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon, > the message is always "Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon". > > Revision Changes Path > 1.80 +5 -12 src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c I must say (rather passively though, so take this with a grain of salt) that I don't agree with this direction. I think we should be striving to be more specific in our identification of the machine. From a user perspective, it's quite nice to SCRLK/PGUP and see what you've just booted. From a technical perspective I know it's not always very easy to determine which is which, but sometimes it is, and I think in those cases it would be nice to be specific. My case in point is the [Mobile] Pentium II vs Celeron. We can be more specific by using CPUID to find out the cache size. However I haven't poked around with the specs for other CPUs and you've said to me in the past that it gets more tricky with the PIII/Xeon side of things. Oh, and BTW, I still see CPU: Pentium II/Celeron (92.34-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x66a Stepping = 10 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> on my Mobile Pentium II/366 laptop :-/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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