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Date:      Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:27:02 -0500
From:      Michael Proto <mike@jellydonut.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VIA EDEN board-based unit
Message-ID:  <47C9D836.7060609@jellydonut.org>
In-Reply-To: <200802251743.06886.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <47B50E1B.4000102@denninger.net> <47B8D60A.70000@jellydonut.org> <200802251743.06886.jhb@freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
>> Completely unrelated, but may save you a search later on. Your VIA C7's
>> CPU ID is identical to mine (0x6d0), which the 6 and 7-series kernels
>> don't detect as such (evident by the "VIA/IDT Unknown" CPU in your
>> dmesg). If you want to use the padlock crypto features of the CPU you
>> will need to patch the initcpu.c and identcpu.c files in /sys/i386/i386
>> and build a new kernel. The patch below works under 6.3-RELEASE
>
> Committed a variation (called it C7 Eden) to HEAD and will MFC in a few days.
>

Thank you!! This will save me from having to patch my source tree every
time I refresh!


-Proto



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