From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 9 10:36:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25626 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thing.dyn.ml.org (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25570 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@spawnet.com) Received: from spawnet.com (bsdx [192.168.1.2]) by thing.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA18761 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:35:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@spawnet.com) Message-ID: <3697A16C.3F6B7761@spawnet.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:35:24 -0500 From: Adam McDougall X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch. References: <4.1.19990108200358.009a82c0@10.0.0.1> <199901091550.KAA07206@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < 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