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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.

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