From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 5 23:38:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B9C14C0C for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA93970 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 02:38:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 02:38:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Strange CPU name reported on my k6-II system (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 09:35:18 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev To: Brian F. Feldman Subject: Re: Strange CPU name reported on my k6-II system You are probably forget to send this reply to current@freebsd.org -Maxim "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Monday, 5 July 1999 at 20:13:57 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > When I take a closer look at dmesg output I discovered that my k6-II > > > reported as "\^M". Maybe it is because I have an very first stepping (I > > > bought my CPU shortly after k6-II appeared on market). Maserboard used - > > > Tyan Trinity 100AT (VIA MP3 chipset). > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193026 Hz > > > CPU: \^E (300.64-MHz 586-class CPU) > > > ^^^^^^^^ > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping=0 > > > Features=0x8001bf > > > AMD > > > Features=0x808009bf > > > Data TLB: 128 entries, 2-way associative > > > Instruction TLB: 64 entries, 1-way associative > > > L1 data cache: 32 kbytes, 32 bytes/line, 2 lines/tag, 2-way associative > > > L1 instruction cache: 32 kbytes, 32 bytes/line, 2 lines/tag, 2-way > > > associative > > > Write Allocate Enable Limit: 64M bytes > > > Write Allocate 15-16M bytes: Enable > > > > I believe green was doing some work in this area in the last day or > > two. > > Yes, I committed some K6-related things. See that AMD Features line? Closed > a PR while I was at it, since that was the commit. The code is pretty much > just how I would have done it, although MAYBE I'd move it into the default. > Anyway, here's the thing: this has been reported before. I need to know > if it's the same person. If not, then it seems Stepping 0 has this bug. > I don't know why the CPU is doing this, but I know what it's doing. AMDs > of a certain stepping and greater will name themselves. i.e. > CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.81-MHz 586-class CPU) > That's my K6-2, a K6-(tm) 3D. Now, we're getting this from the CPU's registers > after a specific call. If I can find out a specific stepping of this CPU > exhibits this behavior, perhaps it's a bug that was fixed later on. Would > those of you with K6-2's that are either: > 1. Stepping=0 (Id = 0x580) > or > 2. Noticing strange CPU names > please contact me? > > > > > Greg > > -- > > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ -- "We believe in the Power and the Might!" (Manowar, 1996) ---------------------------------------- Maxim V. Sobolev, Financial Analyst, Vega International Capital Phone: +380-(44)-246-6396 Fax: +380-(44)-220-8715 E-mail: sobomax@altavista.net ICQ: #42290709 ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message