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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


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