Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:19:33 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Julian <der_julian@web.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: garbage string as cpu identifier Message-ID: <20040319171933.GC12898@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <86eks14fji.fsf@web.de> References: <20040310002922.2242.qmail@web13121.mail.yahoo.com> <D5F2CA60-7230-11D8-BBA4-000A9576014E@cam.ac.uk> <86eks14fji.fsf@web.de>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:11:29AM +0100, Julian wrote: > Bin Ren <br260@cam.ac.uk> writes: > > > The patch is not to 'fix' your problem by replacing garbage > > string with a sane one, but rather to make sure on your > > Athlon CPU, 'cpuid' does return garbage string expectedly. > > This could mean a very tricky software initialization bug > > or even a hardware bug. After confirming fault 'cpuid', > > I'll try to find the very reason and fix it. > > Perhaps not as unusual as reporting garbage, my CPU (AMD Athlon XP > 2400+) claims to be "Unknown CPU Type". E.g. mprime chokes on this and > detects it as Cyrix... Could this be fixed by a BIOS upgrade? It is possible. It is the BIOS that sets that particular string. Your BIOS probably doesn't understand Thorobred cores, only Palamino and Thunderbird. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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