Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:05:56 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Patch for K6 sep flag |
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Meelis Roos wrote: > > TM> I wanted to take this opportunity to say the code in 2.2.0pre3 seems to > TM> correctly identify the features in a later K6 (model 8). I now get > TM> 3dnow detected as it should. Thanks. > > TM> processor : 0 > TM> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > TM> cpu family : 5 > TM> model : 8 > TM> model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor > TM> stepping : unknown > > Are you sure that the 'unknown' stepping is the best we can get? Do the > newer AMD cpus have a concept of stepping or do they have just the > model?
You probably have an A step cpu which reports a mask version of 0. The kernel assumes that if the mask is 0, then it is unknown. This may be true for Intel chips, but not AMD.
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Brian Gerst
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