Re: banias with different (unusual?) model_name

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-08-20 at 10:33, matthias brill wrote:
> hi jeremy
> 
> i've found a pentium-m banias which reports "Mobile Genuine Intel(R)
> processor       1400MHz" in /proc/cpuinfo.  this (strange?) signature
> prevents speedstep-centrino.c from working properly.

Signatures appear to be BIOS set so that would make sense.


> # diff -up arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c.default arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
> --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c.default	2004-08-19 19:53:59.000000000 +0200
> +++ arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c	2004-08-19 20:49:06.000000000 +0200
> @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_frequency_table ba
>  
>  #define _BANIAS(cpuid, max, name)	\
>  {	.cpu_id		= cpuid,	\
> -	.model_name	= "Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor " name "MHz", \
> +	.model_name	= "Mobile Genuine Intel(R) processor       " name "MHz", \
>  	.max_freq	= (max)*1000,	\
>  	.op_points	= banias_##max,	\
>  }
> 

You need a new entry "_WEIRDBANIAS" and entries in the table so that
you don't break other people by such a change but yes

> it seems that only the model_name is different for this CPU?


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