Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:08:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Phil's Kernel Account" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.104/105 misdetection of Cyrix CPU |
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
#On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, josh wrote: #> I hope no one has commented on this already, but the 2.1.105 kernel #> seems to misdetect Cyrix 6x86MXes --- mine is reported as a "Cx486SLC" #> I first noticed the bug w/ 2.1.104, the kernel I was using prior to that #> (a snapshot of vger's cvs repository circa 2.1.103) worked OK. #I'm seeing this as well. Also, after a long period of stability Bogomips #are not being measured properly. A 6x86MMX PR20 shows up with 166 #Bogomips on all earlier kernels. 2.1.105 reports 133.
I don't know how many times I've addressed this, but suffice to say, far too many.
First off; I don't know why, but some kernels report the actual clocking of the processor instead of the PR. This is NORMAL operation.
Some kernels drop ~33-66 bogomips off of Cyrix processors for unknown reasons.
But it's all moot, since bogomips are just that; bogus.
-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net) TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :) Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586 Linux eiterra.nls.net 2.1.98 #15 Fri May 1 18:21:00 EDT 1998 i586 - Linus says for 'brave people only.' I say 'keep a backup.' - :) ! I reserve the right to bill spammers for my time and disk space !
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