Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:37:05 -0700 | From | Jonathan Lundell <> |
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At 9:27 PM -0700 2001-07-10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > According to Dave J's utility the cpu's appear to be exactly the same >> just as the Intel boxes said when I bought them. What might be causing >> these values to be different. And if the BIOS is setting things up >> incorrectly then why does Dave J's utility show the correct values? >> Thanks for any help. >> > >/proc/cpuinfo shows "cooked" values which may be modified by the >kernel, depending on what it knows about CPU errata or kernel >capabilities.
Max cpuid level doesn't get cooked by the kernel, though (at least not in 2.4.6).
Level 3 is the Intel's CPU serial number "feature". Didn't Intel back off on that? Maybe that has something to do with it, and perhaps the utility is doing the cooking. -- /Jonathan Lundell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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