Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:59:47 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium 4 Message-ID: <3A450433.A10C8B9@bellatlantic.net> References: <200012222333.eBMNXFx79651@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800 <3A44B4D2.13709.5F439B@localhost>
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Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > very happily run on Pentium 4 CPU's. > > > > Or am I raving again? :) Feel free to correct any gross errors I've made :) > > Afaik yes :-) > > IIRC the problem is that P4 reports itself back as family 15 or > something like that, not 6. ? Yes. They added a concept of "extended family field" which is used when the 4-bit family field is set to 15. But the IA-32 manual does not say anything about what exactly P4 would return in this extended field. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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