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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> Regards, -- Julian Stecklina Key-ID: 0xD65B2AB5 FA38 DCD3 00EC 97B8 6DD8 D7CC 35D8 8D0E D65B 2AB5 "I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE." - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBATnlVNdiNDtZbKrURAr00AJ9QtP1i1396/2mLCLf8z70o8LVuHgCcCY09 /s1iDRrFQ0O9RKiia6hD2cM= =Db3+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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