Re: /proc/cpuinfo a bit broken in 2.1.76

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 02:26:16 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I am running 2.1.76 on an i486dx33 with 8mb ram. It is an ip masq box for
> > my local network, and it functions perfectly.. Anyway, this is the output
> > of cat /proc/cpuinfo.
> >
> > processor : 0
> > cpu family : 4
> > model : unknown
[...]
> Hmmm... I don't see anything wrong in it. Old Intel 486's don't have
> a CPUID instruction, so the vendor ID cannot be determined.
>
> Have a nice fortnight

Did /proc/cpuinfo work before? (Since your running the current 2.1 kernel,
I assume that this isn't your first kernel...)

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