From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 21 13:29:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22164 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 13:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22151 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 13:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no (2602@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.40]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id WAA04460; Thu, 21 May 1998 22:28:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 21 May 1998 22:28:44 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Studded Cc: Garrett Wollman , "Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c References: <199805191940.MAA04923@freefall.freebsd.org> <199805211703.NAA29347@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <35648538.687FD073@san.rr.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 May 1998 22:28:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: Studded's message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 12:49:12 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Studded writes: > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > < > > > > + 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