Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 23:36:34 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch to recognize AMD 5x86 cpus Message-ID: <199608050636.XAA10271@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 05 Aug 96 08:48:37 %2B0530. <199608050318.AA280805117@fakir.india.hp.com>
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>Enclosed is a patch to recognize and print the kind of AMD 5x86 cpu >on-board at boot time. This is per AMD's application note on CPU >recognition. If you wanted to do this The "Correct" Way, you might be better off rewriting the CPU identification code in locore.s to a more general, better abstracted design, so you could add CPU types easily, rather than making a longer and longer string of special case code. You'd also want to start with an identification mechanism for all current CPU types. A good place to find the information necessary is http://www.x86.org/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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