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 :-/
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