From: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] Re: CPU name for "pure" i386 missing
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:08:48 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010227110848.A1000@flower.cesarb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010226214900.A11142@flower.cesarb>
In-Reply-To: <20010226214900.A11142@flower.cesarb>; from cesarb on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:49:00PM -0300
I've made a patch to fix the problem. I've not even compiled it yet (I might do
it later).
--- linux-2.4.2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Tue Feb 27 10:17:18 2001
+++ linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Tue Feb 27 11:04:54 2001
@@ -1996,6 +1996,15 @@
case X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN:
default:
/* Not much we can do here... */
+ /* Check if at least it has cpuid */
+ if (c->cpuid_level == -1)
+ {
+ /* No cpuid. It must be an ancient CPU */
+ if (c->x86 == 4)
+ strcpy(c->x86_model_id, "486");
+ else if (c->x86 == 3)
+ strcpy(c->x86_model_id, "386");
+ }
break;
case X86_VENDOR_CYRIX:
--
Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@nitnet.com.br
cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br
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