Newer Patch: CPU-detection for older processors (<586)

Helge Deller (Helge.Deller@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 03:23:49 +0200


Hello,

I rewrote and updated the cpu-detection-patch for older cpu´s, so that the
vendor_id should now be recognized and printed as well. Example:
processor : 0
vendor_id : Intel
cpu family : 4
model : 4
model name : 486 SL
stepping : 41
...
Again no special tricks like Keyboard-reset are used, only 3 different int
0x15h-BIOS-calls.

Please download it (only 6KB unzipped) and test it again from:
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Helge.Deller/files/old_cpu_patch.tgz
It now should apply cleanly to 2.2.10 and 2.3.18(&-ac*)-kernels.

Again: Any chance to get it into 2.3.x ?
NB: In setup.c the stepping of processors is printed at startup in hex and in
the /proc-fs in decimal. Is this wanted (?/!)

Thanks,
Helge Deller.

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