From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 9 10:53:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27532 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:53:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from linux.udlug.org (dhcp14-10.superstream.net [24.40.10.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27525 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:53:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phiber@udel.edu) Received: from win98 (win98 [10.0.0.2]) by linux.udlug.org (8.9.2/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA09164 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:52:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990109135236.009bfbf0@10.0.0.1> X-Sender: sysadmin@10.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:53:54 -0500 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Bryan Seitz Subject: Celeron kernel Patch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01:35 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Adam McDougall wrote : >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. > Finally a good post on this subject. That was my aim. Notice : CPU: Celeron (Mendocino) (451.03-MHz 686-class CPU) is still much better than CPU: Unknown (451.03-MHz 686-class CPU) If you have NO cache, ala, a 266 Celeron or Celeron 300 ( no A ), it would look like : CPU: Celeron (451.03-MHz 686-class CPU) I'd even like to put intel infront of the word celeron but hey. Either way, you don't have to like it. I wrote it for myself b/c I was sick of seeing unknown. The Celeron is different than a PII, so hence it is *not* really a complete PII. Sure you could make it say Pentium II, but I'd rather see that its a celeron, which is *WHY* intel gave it it's own ID. -B Bryan G. Seitz University of Delaware Computer Science http://linux.udlug.org "Linux is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message