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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/16362: AMD K6-3 processor is identified as a P586 machine..
Message-ID:  <200001261710.JAA20965@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/16362; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To: aeg@iname.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/16362: AMD K6-3 processor is identified as a P586 machine..
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:17:43 -0500 (EST)

 On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 aeg@iname.com wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > In 3.3 kernel amdk6-3 (not k6-2) was identified as unknown processor,
 > therefore providing us with great kernel panic right now it is identified as
 > 586, being more 686.
 
   The CPUID instruction on all k6 processors returns an "instruction
 family" value which tells us it is a 586 class processor. This is documented
 in the AMD Processor Recognition Application Note:
 	http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/pdf/20734.pdf
 
   Add the following line to your kernel config file and your problems will
 likely go away:
 
 cpu		"I586_CPU"
 
   Kelly
 
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 Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries  http://www.bellind.com/
 Maintainer, BSD Driver Database       http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/
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