Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 19:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Cyrix chip] panic in FreeBSD-STABLE kernel.. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960529193747.24515A-100000@aeffle.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199605292028.OAA19802@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I put back in the i486_CPU line and it works fine, seems the Cyrix reports > itself as a 486 (I now recall a conversation in respect to this already). > > What is involved in the 586 support? Am I loosing on anything significant > by registering it as a 486? How would I go about getting it to register > as a 586 (or even better a 686) > > Enjoy; > > -Brandon > I am pretty sure there is a way to properly ID it, but I guess no one has had the time to do so. Cyrix should probably come out with some source code to properly do that for their cpus. I remember the NexGen folks provided some source code to do that for their Nx586s. Hmmm.... I wonder what the AMD K5's which are finally out will ID as...
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