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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:47:06 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Alastair Stevens <alastair.stevens@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Athlon /proc/cpuinfo anomaly [minor]
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On Wed, Nov 21 2001, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > No there is a bug there, I can confirm that mine does the same (ie
> > second athlon is not reported with correct model name)
> 
> Interesting. But they are definitly the same CPU models ?
> x86info -a info please ? (pub/people/davej on ftp.suse.com)
> 
> Could be your BIOS isn't setting up 2nd CPU name string.
> Harmless, but dumb.  If this is the case, I wonder what else
> it forgets to do.

Weee

[root@bart x86info-1.5]# ./x86info -a | grep "name string"
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1700+
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1700+
[root@bart x86info-1.5]# ./x86info -a | grep "name string"
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
[root@bart x86info-1.5]# ./x86info -a | grep "name string"
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1700+
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1700+
[root@bart x86info-1.5]# ./x86info -a | grep "name string"
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1700+
Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1700+

-- 
Jens Axboe

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