On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:11:29AM +0100, 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? It is possible. It is the BIOS that sets that particular string. Your BIOS probably doesn't understand Thorobred cores, only Palamino and Thunderbird. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Fri Mar 19 2004 - 08:19:35 UTC
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