Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 11:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c Message-ID: <199504061834.LAA04642@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504061558.LAA09187@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Apr 6, 95 11:58:36 am
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> > Garrett Wollman writes: > > > > <<On Thu, 6 Apr 1995 00:55:43 -0700, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com> said: > > > > > Output the CPU features line during the probe on a seperate line, for > > > folks with lots of features the output use to wrap and look ugle. > > > > This really should be conditionalized on `if (bootverbose)'. Most > > users are not equipped to interpret the `features' and don't care > > anyway. While we're at it, I'd like to see this cleaned up... > > Currently, my machine tells me: > > > > CPU: Pentium (Pentium-class CPU) 60 MHz Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x515 > > This is a Pentium 510\\60 or 567\\66 Stepping=5 Features=0x1bf [...] > > > > What it should say is: > > > > CPU: Pentium 510\\60 (Pentium-class CPU) 60 MHz Stepping=5 > > > > ...and `sysctl hw.model' should return `Pentium 510/60'. > > On our system with a DX4100 it says: > > > This is aOverdrive n i486DX4 Stepping=0 Features=0x3 FPU VME > > and Intel tells me there is no step 0 of the DX4100. You don't have an Intel chip, you probably have an AMD DX4/100, pop the cover and check. Note the missing ``Origin = "GenuineIntel"'', big clue that it is an AMD part. AMD does make a stepping 0 DX4. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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