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Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:36:29 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems
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Dave Jones wrote:

> On 3 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>This seems very odd.  I thought in Athlon processors the ID string
>>came from the *CPU* (via CPUID), not the BIOS...
>>
> 
> Software overridable cpuid strings are getting quick commonplace
> in CPUs from several vendors.
> 


Not applicable here, though.

	-hpa

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