From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 11:59:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 11:59:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B585C37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:59:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-201.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.201]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26323; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:59:47 -0500 (EST) Sender: root@smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net Message-ID: <3A450433.A10C8B9@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:59:47 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco van de Voort Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium 4 References: <200012222333.eBMNXFx79651@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800 <3A44B4D2.13709.5F439B@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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