Date: 21 May 1998 22:28:43 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c Message-ID: <xzpaf8bz7us.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Studded's message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 12:49:12 -0700" References: <199805191940.MAA04923@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpvhqzzlb3.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no> <xzpu36jzjzm.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no> <199805211703.NAA29347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <35648538.687FD073@san.rr.com>
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Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> writes: > 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. In this particular case it has no perceivable effect on performance (a couple of extra ticks at boot time...) -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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