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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 1995 11:58:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <199504061558.LAA09187@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <9504061446.AA27318@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 6, 95 10:46:51 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.


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