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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: Patch to recognize AMD 5x86 cpus 
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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:47:33 -0700
From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
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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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