Re: Identifying AMD stepping under 2.2.1

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:21:32 -0500


Thomas Molina wrote:
...
> However, I am getting the following:
...
> stepping : unknown

The problem is that it is a stepping 0 chip. The cpu identify code
assumes if the step is 0, then it is unknown, which may be true for
Intel chips, but not for AMD. I have sent Linus a patch to fix this a
few weeks ago, but it seems to have been lost. It really is only a
cosmetic error.

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Brian Gerst

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