Re: pentium 75 detection

Johan Myreen (jem@vistacom.fi)
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 14:07:25 +0200 (EET)


On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, Peter K wrote:

> > It appears that Linux doesn't know the Pentium 75 exist, as I read in
> > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c, line 149:
> >
> > -----> {"Pentium 60/66","Pentium 90/100","3",
> > "4","5","6","7","8"}};
>
> I have something similar. It does not report a 133 MHz either - and
> won't report the forthcoming 150 neither.

Shouldn't the kernel be reporting something like "P54", instead of some
clock frequency. What if Intel decides to roll out a new line of Pentiums,
with clock frequncies overlapping the frequencies of the current model(s).

-- 
Johan Myreen
jem@pandora.pp.fi