Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:32:30 -0400 (EDT) | From | John Clemens <> | Subject | Re: BIOS, Duron4 specifics... |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Clemens wrote: > > > I've got a new laptop with an AMD Duron in it, based on the Athlon4 core > > (PowerNow, SSE, hardware prefetch, etc.. Palomino core).. However, it > > appears none of the useful features are enabled in the bios. For example, > > Nowhere does it appear to enable SSE or the APIC. > > afair, the mobile Durons are not based upon the Athlon 4 core, and > hence won't have the features you mention. You can verify this with > my x86info tool which you can get from > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/davej/x86info/x86info-1.3.tgz
Actually, CPUID reports Family 6, Model 6, Rev2, which corellates directly to Athlon4/MP (Model 6) processors. Whats surprising is that is doesn't report model 7, which AMD claims is supposed to be the mobile Duron ;).. make me wonder if it's really a neutered Athlon4. Besides, I though the origional mobile durons (T-bird core, model 3) didn't even support powernow...?
FYI: This is an HP 5430 notebook. Duron 850. http://notebooks.hp-at-home.com/products/notebooks/overview.php?modelNumber=n5430
In either case, i think it really does have all these features, but feel free to prove me wrong..
> I'd be interested in getting the output of x86info -a on this > send to me by private mail btw.
will do. By the way, nice utility!
> The kernel side implementation of this lives in Russell King's CVS. > Grab it using.. > > cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pubcvs.arm.linux.org.uk:/mnt/src/cvsroot login > cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pubcvs.arm.linux.org.uk:/mnt/src/cvsroot checkout cpufreq > > cvs commit list: http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cpufreq-commit
Thanks for the pointer. I'll grab this and have a look at it
john.c
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