Subject: Athlon 64 X2 is "Unknown"
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Bernhard Moellemann <zza@serpens.de>
List: current-users
Date: 12/06/2006 10:48:01
Hi!

My dual core Athlon X2 64 is "identified" as
"AMD Unknown K7 (Athlon) (686-class)". How can I fix this?

Here the relevant part of dmesg:

cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD Unknown K7 (Athlon) (686-class), 2010.40 MHz, id 0x20fb1
cpu0: features f7dbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features f7dbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,NOX,MMXX,MMX>
cpu0: features f7dbfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
cpu0: features2 1<SSE3>
cpu0: "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+"
cpu0: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 64B/line 16-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: AMD Power Management features: f<TTP,VID,FID,TS>
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 201 MHz
cpu0: 8 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: AMD Unknown K7 (Athlon) (686-class), 2010.30 MHz, id 0x20fb1
cpu1: features f7dbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features f7dbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,NOX,MMXX,MMX>
cpu1: features f7dbfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
cpu1: features2 1<SSE3>
cpu1: "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+"
cpu1: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
cpu1: L2 cache 512 KB 64B/line 16-way
cpu1: ITLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: AMD Power Management features: f<TTP,VID,FID,TS>

This CPU is around one year old and has a socket 939.

    Bernhard  //
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