Re: Athlon /proc/cpuinfo anomaly [minor]

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz)
Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:57:34 +0200 (SAST)

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hmm i've always been under the impression that those strings are hard
encoded into the CPU so even if we're on a motherboard/bios which doesn't
"support" that particular CPU we can do a cpuid and get the same string.

Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo

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