From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 11:46:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10696 for current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10689 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA00500; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:43:27 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA29689; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:43:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA05659; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:01:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608051801.UAA05659@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Patch to recognize AMD 5x86 cpus To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:01:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: koshy@india.hp.com, michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608050636.XAA10271@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at "Aug 4, 96 11:36:34 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > If you wanted to do this The "Correct" Way, you might be better off > rewriting the CPU identification code in locore.s to a more general, identcpu.c (It has been divorced from locore.s some time ago.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)