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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems
Date: 3 Jan 2002 09:48:15 -0800
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Followup to:  <20020103165321.GA737@bombe.modem.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
By author:    Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> The identification string is written by the BIOS.  Yours didn't know
> about XPs so it misidentified them as MPs.  Upgrade your BIOS if this
> bugs you.
> 
> If ID string contradicts what you think you bought, don't trust the ID
> string.
> 

This seems very odd.  I thought in Athlon processors the ID string
came from the *CPU* (via CPUID), not the BIOS...

	-hpa
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