Subject: Re: identifycpu() on a Cyrix 6x86
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/02/1998 08:43:34
>> True, but it's disconcerting for a user, who may not know anything
>> about these distinctions, to have his nice "Pentium-like" box called a
>> 486.
>If it's confusing to users, perhaps I should just remove the XX-class
>message, it isn't of much use anyway.
But then what do you do with the "options I586_CPU" and friends in the
kernel config? :-)
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