Re: What is AMD64 Family10h ? :)

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

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Paul Goyette wrote:
| On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Christoph Egger wrote:
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|> Paul Goyette wrote:
|> | Anyone have an idea as to what this should really say?
|>
|> That you are one of the first owners of an AMD Barcelona Quadcore
|> machine. Congratualtion!!
|>
|> Both Barcelona and Phenom have the family id 0x10. Griffin has 0x11.
|> That's all.
|
| Oh!  Thanks!
|
| BTW, when I bought it, I purchased a Phenom, not a Barcelona.  It's a
| quad-core running at 2.3GHz...
|
| Interesting enough, the CPU is properly identified as a Phenom...
|
|     cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: (boot processor)
|     cpu0: AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor, 2310.81 MHz

That's good to know. So you are in the position to test code specific
for that machine - like proper L2/L3 cache size detection.

I guess, L3 cache detection isn't implemented yet.

Christoph
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