Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:56:49 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo a bit broken in 2.1.76 |
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Hi,
> Actually, although I'm not certain, I think what confused me is that it > used to say "486" on a stock RedHat 5.0 installation. (eg 2.0.32) > > I must've skipped over it blindly and thought it said CPU family 0 or > something, because it was missing 486 and just had family 4.
Older kernels reported 'cpu: x86' where 'x' was the CPU family, which is confusing in general (you can have a CPU called <something>586 having a 486 instruction set), so it got replaced by CPU family.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Anything is good and useful if it's made of chocolate."
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