From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Chris Lalancette <clalancette@illuminari.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] identifier string for P4 Prescott
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:47:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k6vgi6p1.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2z2vJ-7ND-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (Chris Lalancette's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:10:07 +0200")
Chris Lalancette <clalancette@illuminari.org> writes:
> A trivial patch to change the identifier in the kernel from "Unknown
> CPU [15:3]" to "Pentium 4(tm) Prescott". Although Prescott is not the
> official name of the chip (I think Intel just decided to go with the
> P4 name), I do think it is useful to be able to identify this chip
> separately (given that it has a different core). This is a patch
> against 2.4.27
2.6 dropped this decoding because it was useless (doesn't offer
any additional information). Maybe that should be just done on 2.4
too.
It doesn't offer any additional information because we get
the CPU name from CPUID anyways and it is a long term
mainteance burden.
-Andi
P.S.: The official Intel name for Prescott would be Pentium 4E
(I don't know where to place the (tm) though)
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2004-08-30 22:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-31 8:51 ` [PATCH] identifier string for P4 Prescott Tonnerre
2004-08-30 22:02 Chris Lalancette
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