garbage string as cpu identifier

[Doom Neine]

i have I686 in kernel
Athlon XP 2500+ 33MHZ front side bus 1.83 GHz 512KB
cache

thanks

> On 9 Mar 2004, at 18:03, Doom Neine wrote:
> 
> > hello all,
> > doug white pointed out that my cpu string being
> garbaged was  
> > interesting, i noticed it but i didn't think it
> was a big deal.
> 
> I personally find this very interesting indeed.
> 
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> >
> > CPU:  
> >
>
\M-5\M^@f\M-A\M-a\^P\M-~\M-C\M-h\M-7\M^?fY\M-1\^Z\M^J\M-C\M-~\M-H\M-
> 
> >
>
h\M-<I\M-h)Hr\M-)\M^@\M-e\M-x\M^@\M-E\^Hs\M-!\M-C\M-h%
> (1833.14-MHz  
> > 686-class CPU)
> >
> > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0
> >
> >
>
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE
> 
> > ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> >
> > AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
> 
> After digging around, I locate the origin as
> 'cpuid()' functions.
> Here, please answer a few questions:
> 
> 1) What's your CPU option in kernel configuration
> file: I686_CPU
> or I386_CPU? I guess yours is I686_CPU.
> 
> 2) What's the specific model of your CPU? AMD Duron
> or Athlon?
> What's the speed?
> 
> With your these answers, I could write a small
> patch. If you're
> willing to try that, let's see how it goes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bin
> 


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