Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Pentium IV-summary | Date | 8 Nov 2000 16:16:21 -0800 |
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Followup to: <E13tdxo-0000W1-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Is this revamp only for processors that actually support the > > CPUID-instruction, or will you fix the CPU-detection for non-CPUID > > processors too?! There are quite a few processors that can be detected > > properly but aren't (for instance, IBM 486slc/slc2/slc3) > > Linus refused code to ident the ones that didnt matter because the code was > (neccessarily) obscure, weird and didn't change anything but the string in > procfs. >
It should be a lot cleaner to do that kind of stuff -- if you feel it's worth bothering to -- in my changed version. It's taking a bit longer than I'd like, because I keep uncovering, ahem, "issues" with the current code that can be easily fixed once one adds a real framework for these things. I hopefully will have something RSN.
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