Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Dec 17 2007 - 18:20:57 EST


On Mon 2007-12-17 22:04:19, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 15-12-07 00:29, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>>> ?? Just initialize bogomips to 6GHz equivalent... and we are fine
>>>> until 6GHz cpus come out.
>>> How long will that take to boot on a 386?
>> Well the dumb approach to fix that would seem to be to initialise it to
>> cpu->family 3 -> 50MHz 4 -> 300Mhz 5-> etc...
>
> By the way, you have a 300 MHz 486? I believe 3 -> 40, 4 -> 133, 5 -> 233
> would be good? And I'm not really sure about the etc. P6 has a large range
> again...

Some nexgen 5x86 boxes were pretty fast, still could not do 486... so
family 3 iirc.
Pavel
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