Re: Athlon /proc/cpuinfo anomaly [minor]

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:40:16 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > CPU0 is labelled as an "AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1800+", as expected.
> > CPU1 is instead labelled just "AMD Athlon(tm) Processor".
> Those strings are read directly out of the CPU. Mine for example says
> model name : AMD-K7(tm) Processor

Better yet.. They're programmed by the BIOS.

Dave.

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