Julian wrote: > Bin Ren <br260_at_cam.ac.uk> writes: > > >>The patch is not to 'fix' your problem by replacing garbage >>string with a sane one, but rather to make sure on your >>Athlon CPU, 'cpuid' does return garbage string expectedly. >>This could mean a very tricky software initialization bug >>or even a hardware bug. After confirming fault 'cpuid', >>I'll try to find the very reason and fix it. > > > Perhaps not as unusual as reporting garbage, my CPU (AMD Athlon XP > 2400+) claims to be "Unknown CPU Type". E.g. mprime chokes on this and > detects it as Cyrix... Could this be fixed by a BIOS upgrade? > > > CPU: Unknown CPU Type (2008.53-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x681 Stepping = 1 > Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM > OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> No - the cpuid ("Id = 0x681") is not in the BIOS. FreeBSD needs to be updated to recognize it. I think (a guess) that the appropriate file to look at is: /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 17:46:46 UTC
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