From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 19 21:44:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kwanon.research.canon.com.au (kwanon.research.canon.com.au [203.12.172.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F229137BDB2 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iain@research.canon.com.au) Received: (qmail 10622 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2000 04:44:28 -0000 Received: from bellmann.research.canon.com.au (203.12.175.190) by kwanon-heat.research.canon.com.au with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 04:44:28 -0000 Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [203.12.174.253]) by bellmann.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68CE8B02; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:44:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [10.2.0.253]) by elph.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D75E3C970; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:44:23 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:44:23 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Bob K Cc: spork , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0/stable and Cyrix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bob K wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, spork wrote: > > > 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). > > > CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (250.05-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x601 Stepping = 1 DIR=0x1453 > > Features=0x80a135 > > > > Any ideas? > > Hmm. Does Cyrix still "PR" (Pentium-Rate) their chips? Might it be > possible that 333 is the PR rating? > > I could be completely wrong, however. > Possibly, I have seen the same CPU and it was set for 333MHz (66.6 x 5 or 83.3 x 4 or something that works out to be 333 anyway). It does seem to perform fast enough to be a 333MHz chip rather than a 250MHz chip (at least compared to my PII-233 it took <3hrs compared to more than 4hrs for a buildworld, but that might be something else as well). Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message