Messages in this thread | | | From | BROWN Nick <> | Subject | IDT Winchip | Date | Mon, 10 May 1999 22:50:14 +0200 |
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I just received a new Cyrix MII (for me) and a 200 MHz IDT Winchip (for my neighbour, who has a single-voltage motherboard).
Checking them out on my system, I found that with the Winchip in place, my BIOS only detected the first 96 MB of memory in my 128 MB system. Apart from that, Linux worked like a champ, and I got performance equivalent to a 233 MHz Pentium on my personal chess benchmark (which is no less silly than bogomips, IMHO).
So, for the CPU gurus: - Is there any explicit code for the Winchip in Linux ? - Which processor type group should I compile the kernel for ? - Any idea why it only saw 96 MB of memory ? And, does anyone have anything they need checking out for compatibility with this chip ? I've got cycles to spare...
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
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