Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:35:24 -0500 From: Adam McDougall <bsdx@spawnet.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch. Message-ID: <3697A16C.3F6B7761@spawnet.com> References: <4.1.19990108200358.009a82c0@10.0.0.1> <199901091550.KAA07206@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:06:09 -0500, Bryan Seitz <phiber@udel.edu> said: > > > Hi, I was messing around with a new machine the other day when I decided to > > install > > FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT. I've got a celeron 300a in it running at 450Mhz. Since > > I don't believe it is useful to make any distinction between different > flavors of Pentium II, since they all (for the time being) share the > exact instruction-set architecture and feature set. Just because > Intel's marketing department wants you to believe something, doesn't > mean it's true. > > -GAWollman I think it would be nice to at least have the kernel identify it as a pII, instead of 'Unknown 80686' which makes some people worry if its working right. Maybe then it could get more specific when booting with verbose(boot: -v), announcing celeron and if or if not it has cache. The reason it has its own case different from the other pII's is because (the models with it) have oncore fullspeed cache, whereas the normal pII's have off-core half-speed cache. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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