Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:11:29 +0100 From: Julian <der_julian@web.de> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: garbage string as cpu identifier Message-ID: <86eks14fji.fsf@web.de> In-Reply-To: <D5F2CA60-7230-11D8-BBA4-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk> (Bin Ren's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:18:28 %2B0000") References: <20040310002922.2242.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> <D5F2CA60-7230-11D8-BBA4-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk>
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--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk> writes: > The patch is not to 'fix' your problem by replacing garbage > string with a sane one, but rather to make sure on your > Athlon CPU, 'cpuid' does return garbage string expectedly. > This could mean a very tricky software initialization bug > or even a hardware bug. After confirming fault 'cpuid', > I'll try to find the very reason and fix it. Perhaps not as unusual as reporting garbage, my CPU (AMD Athlon XP 2400+) claims to be "Unknown CPU Type". E.g. mprime chokes on this and detects it as Cyrix... Could this be fixed by a BIOS upgrade? CPU: Unknown CPU Type (2008.53-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD" Id =3D 0x681 Stepping =3D 1 Features=3D0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE= ,MCA,CM OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> AMD Features=3D0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> Regards, =2D-=20 Julian Stecklina Key-ID: 0xD65B2AB5 FA38 DCD3 00EC 97B8 6DD8 D7CC 35D8 8D0E D65B 2AB5 "I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in=20 this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death=20 thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS=20 ARE NICE." - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBATnlVNdiNDtZbKrURAr00AJ9QtP1i1396/2mLCLf8z70o8LVuHgCcCY09 /s1iDRrFQ0O9RKiia6hD2cM= =Db3+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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