Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:44:23 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au> To: Bob K <melange@yip.org> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0/stable and Cyrix Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10004201440560.10344-100000@elph.research.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004200024581.76732-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bob K wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, spork wrote: > > > Cyrix MII-333MHz chip. Install was flawless, and it's been working great, > > but looking back at 'dmesg' I see that it thinks the processor is running > > at 250MHz. BIOS reports it as 333 at startup (AMI winbios, btw). > > > CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (250.05-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x601 Stepping = 1 DIR=0x1453 > > Features=0x80a135<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,CX8,PGE,CMOV,MMX> > > > > Any ideas? > > Hmm. Does Cyrix still "PR" (Pentium-Rate) their chips? Might it be > possible that 333 is the PR rating? > > I could be completely wrong, however. > Possibly, I have seen the same CPU and it was set for 333MHz (66.6 x 5 or 83.3 x 4 or something that works out to be 333 anyway). It does seem to perform fast enough to be a 333MHz chip rather than a 250MHz chip (at least compared to my PII-233 it took <3hrs compared to more than 4hrs for a buildworld, but that might be something else as well). Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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