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Subject: Re: 2.5.39 XConfig Processor Detection
From: Adam Voigt <adam@cryptocomm.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Ahh, that would make sense then. Well I feel kind of dumb, I
just naturally assumed you had a built in feature that read
the /proc for current hardware or something (and since it worked
for me once (when the Athlon was the default)). Heh, well you
learn something new every day.

Adam Voigt
adam.voigt@cryptocomm.com

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 09:30, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:20:21AM -0400, Adam Voigt wrote:
>  > Apologies if this has already been noted or if I'm posting
>  > this to the wrong place/annoying you very busy people needlessly,
>  > but when I run XConfig, in the "Processor Type and Features" tab
>  > it autodetects my processor as a Pentium-4 when in fact it is a
>  > P3 700MHZ. The last time I installed a kernel (2.4.x) by hand, it did
>  > autodetect the processor on that machine (Athlon), so I assume that
>  > feature is still active. Anyways, here's the output from my cpuinfo:
> 
>  There's no 'autodetect' feature.
>  Only defconfig, which sets the default option.
>  These defaults match whatever Linus is currently using, so
>  it seems he upgraded his Athlon box to a P4 8-)
> 
>  Dave
> 
> -- 
> | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs