Hi, I need to check for *only* Intel P6 processors, so no Classic Pentium,
and no Pentium 4. setup.c is a bit obscure; is this check correct :
if (current_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL ||
current_cpu_data.x86 != 6)
return NOT_P6;
if (current_cpu_data.x86_model > 5)
return PENTIUM_III;
if (current_cpu_data.x86_model > 2)
return PENTIUM_II;
return PENTIUM_PRO;
??
(I need this check as I make use of the P6 performance counters).
Also, I found a weird bit of code in setup.c (2.4.0test12) :
1567 case 4:
1568 if ( c->x86 > 6 && dl ) {
1569 /* P4 family */
1570 if ( dl ) {
1571 /* L3 cache */
1572 cs = 128 << (dl-1);
1573 l3 += cs;
1574 break;
1575 }
1576 }
1577 /* else same as 8 - fall through */
1578 case 8:
1579 if ( dl ) {
in particular, the check on line 1570 seems redundant, or a typo.
thanks
john
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