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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



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