> Look at www.x86.org. There is a rather complete code base on how to
> distinguish early x86 CPU's depending on what bugs and/or undocumented
> features are present. The code is even capable of distingusishing between
> 80(1)86 and 80(1)88 by doing tricks with the prefetch queue, also that has
> (at least at the moment) little pertinence in the context of running Linux.
>
> Yours,
> Dominik Kubla
But the original posting was a Xeon that is reporting to be a Celery. I
assume that Intel has gotten their act together by now. Isn't there an
Intel program for testing the CPU for the counterfeit processors?
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