From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 05:29:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04256 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03980 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:36:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06138; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:02:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:02:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jon E. Kump" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code for Pentium II In-Reply-To: <34BF777A.6DDDF99B@stlnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Jon E. Kump wrote: > We have FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE running on a Pentium II 300Mhz. processor. > My question is > when is the identcpu.c code going to be updated to reflect that I have > the Pentium II. Right now > it says that it is a Pentium Pro. see below Someone just needs to submit the patches to teach identcpu how to tell the difference... for alli ntents and purposes though the PII and the PPro are very, very similar. FreeBSD doesn't use MMX and the additional L1 cache are basically invisible to the OS. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major