Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:53:20 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Athlon /proc/cpuinfo anomaly [minor] |
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> hmm i've always been under the impression that those strings are hard > encoded into the CPU so even if we're on a motherboard/bios which doesn't > "support" that particular CPU we can do a cpuid and get the same string.
It likely has a less descriptive hardware default, but it can be (and is advised to be for bios writers) overridden in software.
Dave.
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