VIA EDEN board-based unit

Michael Proto mike at jellydonut.org
Sat Mar 1 22:27:14 UTC 2008


John Baldwin wrote:
>> Completely unrelated, but may save you a search later on. Your VIA C7's
>> CPU ID is identical to mine (0x6d0), which the 6 and 7-series kernels
>> don't detect as such (evident by the "VIA/IDT Unknown" CPU in your
>> dmesg). If you want to use the padlock crypto features of the CPU you
>> will need to patch the initcpu.c and identcpu.c files in /sys/i386/i386
>> and build a new kernel. The patch below works under 6.3-RELEASE
>
> Committed a variation (called it C7 Eden) to HEAD and will MFC in a few days.
>

Thank you!! This will save me from having to patch my source tree every
time I refresh!


-Proto


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