Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:15:53 +0100 | From | Andreas Bombe <> | Subject | Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems |
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:48:15AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <20020103165321.GA737@bombe.modem.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> > By author: Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > The identification string is written by the BIOS. Yours didn't know > > about XPs so it misidentified them as MPs. Upgrade your BIOS if this > > bugs you. > > > > If ID string contradicts what you think you bought, don't trust the ID > > string. > > > > This seems very odd. I thought in Athlon processors the ID string > came from the *CPU* (via CPUID), not the BIOS...
It comes from there, but it is written there by the BIOS for Athlon (and I guess Duron, too).
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jow-18.10.01-000/ (in German)
I searched a bit with Google but couldn't find an English page with that info right now.
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