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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Montecito processor family
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:04:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c68993$ac26f570$e534030a@amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42ADD890.1010406@free.fr>

Luck, Tony wrote on Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:33 AM
> > Why not have "model name" with the text name, like on ia32?
> > 
> > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family      : 15
> > model           : 4
> > model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
> > stepping        : 1
> 
> This sounds like an excellent plan.  We can even use the new
> (in SDM2.2 p. 2:345) PAL_BRAND_INFO call to get the right
> (Intel marketting/legal approved) string.  For older systems
> that don't implement PAL_BRAND_INFO we could have some fallback
> code that decodes family/model to Merced/McKinley/Madison.


I would also like to take this opportunity to revamp feature string.
It is way too long, and should be either two or three letter acronym
like x86:

X86 feature string: "flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce ... "

- features   : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops
+ features   : lb ao


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-06 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-13 19:03 Montecito processor family Menyhart, Zoltan
2005-06-13 19:17 ` Yu, Fenghua
2005-11-09 13:54 ` Takayoshi Kochi
2005-11-09 15:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-10  1:50 ` Takayoshi Kochi
2006-06-01  0:03 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-01  1:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-01  3:06 ` Russ Anderson
2006-06-01  3:30 ` Alex Williamson
2006-06-01 16:32 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-02  6:51 ` dann frazier
2006-06-02 22:18 ` Russ Anderson
2006-06-03 18:43 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-03 19:23 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-06-05 20:37 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-06 18:04 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2006-06-06 18:16 ` Alex Williamson
2006-06-06 18:59 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-07  9:22 ` Jes Sorensen

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