From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 29 3: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-102.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4749514F41; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 03:02:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA74025; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:02:01 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02201; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:02:01 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200001291102.LAA02201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: KATO Takenori Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c In-Reply-To: Message from KATO Takenori of "Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:49:03 PST." <200001290749.XAA78364@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:02:01 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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 on my Mobile Pentium II/366 laptop :-/ -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message