From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:29:04 +0100 Message-ID: <1129217344.18635.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <43146CC3.4010005@gentoo.org> <58cb370e05083008121f2eb783@mail.gmail.com> <43179CC9.8090608@gentoo.org> <58cb370e050927062049be32f8@mail.gmail.com> <434D2DF1.9070709@gentoo.org> <434D3266.9000203@gentoo.org> <1129139563.7966.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1129203917.18635.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <434E7237.1070508@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:51652 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823AbVJMPBG (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:01:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <434E7237.1070508@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Daniel Drake , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, posting@blx4.net, vsu@altlinux.ru On Iau, 2005-10-13 at 10:41 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > If the bus speed of your 486 is 25Mhz the chipset is at 25MHz as is your > > IDE (ie 486/25, DX2/50, 3/75 - not sure about 4/100 etc). Now does > > anyone know how you find out if the CPU is 25MHz bus clocked on a 486 8) > > Same method as /proc/cpuinfo, for an approximation? :) Unfortunately cpuinfo doesn't know the difference between a 100Mhz (4x25) and 100Mhz (3x33). Late 486s have cpuid which helps a bit but many do not have that (it comes in with writeback cache) and they don't have rdmsr to access the processor boot bus speed bits as the preventium and later do. Alan