Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doom Neine <shockwavebsd@yahoo.com> To: Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: garbage string as cpu identifier Message-ID: <20040309222001.59780.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <06D0C7CB-720C-11D8-BBA4-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk>
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i have I686 in kernel Athlon XP 2500+ 33MHZ front side bus 1.83 GHz 512KB cache thanks > On 9 Mar 2004, at 18:03, Doom Neine wrote: > > > hello all, > > doug white pointed out that my cpu string being > garbaged was > > interesting, i noticed it but i didn't think it > was a big deal. > > I personally find this very interesting indeed. > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > > > > CPU: > > > \M-5\M^@f\M-A\M-a\^P\M-~\M-C\M-h\M-7\M^?fY\M-1\^Z\M^J\M-C\M-~\M-H\M- > > > > h\M-<I\M-h)Hr\M-)\M^@\M-e\M-x\M^@\M-E\^Hs\M-!\M-C\M-h% > (1833.14-MHz > > 686-class CPU) > > > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0 > > > > > Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE > > > ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > > > > AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> > > After digging around, I locate the origin as > 'cpuid()' functions. > Here, please answer a few questions: > > 1) What's your CPU option in kernel configuration > file: I686_CPU > or I386_CPU? I guess yours is I686_CPU. > > 2) What's the specific model of your CPU? AMD Duron > or Athlon? > What's the speed? > > With your these answers, I could write a small > patch. If you're > willing to try that, let's see how it goes. > > Cheers, > Bin > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
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