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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:43:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   4.0/stable and Cyrix
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.10004192342530.23175-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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Hi,

First of all, I'm really impressed with 4.0.  Very few problems on both of
the home boxes I've tried it on...

My one question is this.  I bought a cheapo ($250) E-Machines box with a
Cyrix MII-333MHz chip.  Install was flawless, and it's been working great,
but looking back at 'dmesg' I see that it thinks the processor is running
at 250MHz.  BIOS reports it as 333 at startup (AMI winbios, btw).

Here's the top of dmesg:

FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #3: Wed Apr 12 01:31:10 EDT 2000
    root@bigpoop.fasttrackmonkey.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BIGPOOP
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193140 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 250048177 Hz
CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (250.05-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "CyrixInstead"  Id = 0x601  Stepping = 1  DIR=0x1453
  Features=0x80a135<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,CX8,PGE,CMOV,MMX>
real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 29810688 (29112K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02f4000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc02f409c. 

Any ideas?

On a completely unrelated note, the BIOS on this box has a big
"E-Machines" splash page, anyone know if it's possible to dump the bios,
modify, and reflash without a burner?

Thanks,

Charles

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Charles Sprickman
spork@super-g.com
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