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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 03:15:53 +0100
From: Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Subject: Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:48:15AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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...

It comes from there, but it is written there by the BIOS for Athlon (and
I guess Duron, too).

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jow-18.10.01-000/ (in German)

I searched a bit with Google but couldn't find an English page with that
info right now.

-- 
Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>    DSA key 0x04880A44
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