Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:53:54 -0500 From: Bryan Seitz <phiber@udel.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Celeron kernel Patch Message-ID: <4.1.19990109135236.009bfbf0@10.0.0.1>
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On 01:35 PM 1/9/99 -0500, Adam McDougall wrote :
>Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>
>> <<On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:06:09 -0500, Bryan Seitz <phiber@udel.edu> said:
>>
>> > Hi, I was messing around with a new machine the other day when I
decided to
>> > install
>> > FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT. I've got a celeron 300a in it running at 450Mhz.
>Since
>>
>> I don't believe it is useful to make any distinction between different
>> flavors of Pentium II, since they all (for the time being) share the
>> exact instruction-set architecture and feature set. Just because
>> Intel's marketing department wants you to believe something, doesn't
>> mean it's true.
>>
>> -GAWollman
>
>I think it would be nice to at least have the kernel identify it as a
>pII, instead of 'Unknown 80686' which makes some people worry if its
>working right.
>
>Maybe then it could get more specific when booting with verbose(boot:
>-v), announcing celeron and if or if not it has cache.
>
>The reason it has its own case different from the other pII's is because
>(the models with it) have oncore fullspeed cache, whereas the normal
>pII's have off-core half-speed cache.
>
Finally a good post on this subject. That was my aim. Notice :
CPU: Celeron (Mendocino) (451.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
is still much better than
CPU: Unknown (451.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
If you have NO cache, ala, a 266 Celeron or Celeron 300 ( no A ),
it would look like :
CPU: Celeron (451.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
I'd even like to put intel infront of the word celeron but hey.
Either way, you don't have to like it. I wrote it for myself b/c I was sick of
seeing unknown. The Celeron is different than a PII, so hence it is *not*
really a complete PII. Sure you could make it say Pentium II, but
I'd rather see that its a celeron, which is *WHY* intel gave it
it's own ID.
-B
Bryan G. Seitz
University of Delaware Computer Science
http://linux.udlug.org
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