Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:47:33 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users), koshy@india.hp.com Subject: Re: Patch to recognize AMD 5x86 cpus Message-ID: <199608061547.IAA18751@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 05 Aug 96 20:01:12 %2B0200. <199608051801.UAA05659@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>As Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: >> If you wanted to do this The "Correct" Way, you might be better off >> rewriting the CPU identification code in locore.s to a more general, > identcpu.c >(It has been divorced from locore.s some time ago.) Not in 2.1.0, the system I had easy reference access to. Glad to see it has its own module now, though. Is it modular, well abstracted, comprehensive and all encompassing? I recommended looking through http://www.x86.org/ because that guy has pretty much all the info you need to identify *every* Intel-ish CPU. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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