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Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:45:23 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] AMD Elan patch
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Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Do you happen to know if there is an easy and safe way to detect an Elan
>>at runtime? If so, it might make more sense to make this a runtime
>>decision instead.
>>
> 
> Family 4 Model 10 or so my information tells me.
> Unless there are also others with the same name and different cpuid info.
> 


That identifies the CPU core, but not the chipset -- and it's quite 
likely the CPU core will pop up in other uses.

Not trustworthy.

	-hpa



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