Date: 19 Nov 1999 13:12:30 +0200 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freebsd@nowcool.dhs.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu name Message-ID: <867ljelopt.fsf@not.demophon.com> In-Reply-To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai's message of "19 Nov 1999 09:25:57 %2B0200" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911190244190.404-100000@nowcool.dhs.org> <19991119073255.A37588@daemon.ninth-circle.org.newsgate.clinet.fi>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> writes:
> Looking at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c I see that the 0x580 is:
>
> case 0x580:
> strcat(cpu_model, "K6-2");
> break;
>
> Which gets copied into:
>
> printf("CPU: ");
> strncpy(cpu_model, i386_cpus[cpu].cpu_name, sizeof cpu_model);
>
> But I can't find anything remotely related that would corrupt the
> strncpy to print \^E.
Look again, the AMD identification can fill cpu_model using cpuid.
The code doesn't appear to have changed lately, so if there is a
problem it's probably a matter of some processor being incorrectly
identified as supporting the feature. Or the processor is broken.
Does anyone know whether the processor in question should report its
name?
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