Re: Celeron processor detection

David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:56:58 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Rob Dale wrote:

> David Whysong wrote:
> [...]
> > model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
> > stepping : unknown
> > cache size : 128 KB
> [...]
> > The model name and cache size are both wrong.
>
> Technically, the model name is right. The Celeron uses the Deschutes
> core.

Yes, but linux/arch/i386/setup.c looks for zero L2 cache and reports that
as a Celeron. For some reason this chip is reporting 128k L2.

> Maybe you got lucky and recieved a PII 266a ;)

For a while, I wondered if Intel had slipped some cache in. However,
timing tests in DOS (ugh) indicate that there is no L2 cache.

Oh, I forgot -- kernel pre-2.1.122-2.

Dave

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