Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:36:08 +0100 | From | (Clemens Huebner - Sun Germany Technical Solution Center - Munich) | Subject | Re: ON/OFF-Topic: What's about my pentium??? |
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> From owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Fri Nov 29 07:21 PST 1996 > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:49:53 GMT > From: root <mccramer@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: ON/OFF-Topic: What's about my pentium??? > > > High! > > May be I am asking stupid things, but: > > I have a Intel Pentium 90 (or -- after all that --- I think to have...), > but "cat"ing /proc/cpuinfo says: > > processor : 0 > cpu : 586 > model : Pentium 75+ <------------!!!!!!!! > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > stepping : 4 > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid : yes > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 > bogomips : 39.83 > ^^^^^ > This is caused by hacking > the motherboard to a higher clock... ;-) > > What does this "75+" mean??? "A little bit more than 75MHz" ? > Or am I fooled by my "local dealer" ???
The CPUID command returns 3 values: Cpu , Model and Stepping. CPU is 4 for 486, 5 for Pentium, 6 for PPro Stepping is the mask revision of the chip. Model signifies a subcategory of CPU. Since there are only 16 possible Model IDs, these are groups of CPUs. Pentium 75+ is the Group containing all P54C versions (75-200).
Clemens > > Another question: > What is the correct way to access /proc/kcore for reading out the contents > of the memory? A simple "cat" hangs my machine after a few seconds... > (I hear the crowd laughing.....) :-). > > > KEEP HACKING! > > meino > ...who dances with modems... > > mcramer@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de
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