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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 12:49:12 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c
Message-ID:  <35648538.687FD073@san.rr.com>
References:  <199805191940.MAA04923@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpvhqzzlb3.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no> <xzpu36jzjzm.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no> <199805211703.NAA29347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> <<On 21 May 1998 18:06:37 +0200, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) said:
> 
> > +                               if ((cpu_id & 0xf0) == 0)
> > +                                       strcat(cpu_model, "Pentium Pro A-step");
> 
> I really doubt that anyone cares to this level of detail.

	I think you'd be surprised. We get -questions mail at least twice a
month to the effect that, "My cpu is a foo++ Triple Zed but the boot
probe says it's just a foo. How do I know that freebsd is using all the
bells and whistles on my cpu... etc." You can rest assured that two
letters a month to -questions translates to a couple dozen who don't
bother to write. My vote is for more detail as long as it doesn't hurt
performance.

Doug

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