Re: garbage string as cpu identifier

Try:

save the patch as patch-identcpu

cp patch-identcpu /usr/src/sys/i386/i386
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/i386
patch < patch-identcpu

then compile your kernel and reboot. I
expect to see your CPU ID as:
"garbage chars from cpuid"

Please try and see whether this is the case.

-- Bin


--- identcpu.c  Fri Mar  5 03:28:32 2004
+++ identcpu.c.new      Tue Mar  9 23:11:53 2004
_at__at_ -572,8 +572,17 _at__at_
        brand = cpu_brand;
        while (*brand == ' ')
                ++brand;
-       if (*brand != '\0')
-               strcpy(cpu_model, brand);
+       if (*brand != '\0') {
+               char *c;
+               for (c = brand; c < cpu_brand+48 && *c; c++)
+                       if (*c < '!' || *c > '~')
+                               break;
+
+               if (c < cpu_brand+48 && *c)
+                       strcpy(cpu_model, "garbage chars from cpuid");
+               else
+                       strcpy(cpu_model, brand);
+       }
  
 #endif