Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 May 1999 23:53:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo wrong for Intel 486SX-33!! |
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> Look at www.x86.org. There is a rather complete code base on how to > distinguish early x86 CPU's depending on what bugs and/or undocumented > features are present. The code is even capable of distingusishing between > 80(1)86 and 80(1)88 by doing tricks with the prefetch queue, also that has > (at least at the moment) little pertinence in the context of running Linux. > > Yours, > Dominik Kubla
But the original posting was a Xeon that is reporting to be a Celery. I assume that Intel has gotten their act together by now. Isn't there an Intel program for testing the CPU for the counterfeit processors?
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