On 28-Oct-01 cameron grant wrote: >> What about new Durons based on the Palomino core? The problem is >> that as far as I know they have nothing in their name (like XP in >> Athlon's case) that distinguishes them from older Durons based on >> the Thunderbird core, while they do support SSE in addition to >> 3DNow and MMX. Perhaps it would be better to introduce new variable >> CPUCORE, so the user could use something like the following: > > from what i can see, identcpu.c fetches the cpu name using a cpuid > instruction.
The part cpuid gives you is "AuthenticAMD". The fancy name is determined by switching on the Id. > my system with dual 1.1ghz durons identifies as: > > CPU: AMD Duron(tm) MP Processor (1110.94-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x670 Stepping = 0 > > Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA, > CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > AMD Features=0xc0440000<<b18>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> > > the entire "AMD Duron(tm) MP Processor" string appears to originate from the > cpu, so i would suggest that the processor is named duron mp. the ident > string does not change when booting a non-smp kernel, so unless the cpu is > detecting the chipset as dual cpu or the bios is reprogramming the cpu, that > is actually what amd have named the 1.0+ghz durons. > > -cg > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
