RE: [X86] Fix up silly i1586 boot message.

[Yuhong Bao]

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> On Wednesday 2009-10-28 04:08=2C Yuhong Bao wrote:
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>>> Intel started it first with picking up a ridiculous number for the fami=
ly
>>> ID for the P4 line. There is no technical justification for not keeping
>>> these numbers consecutive.
>
> Once one knows that there are 4 bits for the family field=2C 15 is not
> such a strange value - it is the last value=2C one could take it as
> "reserved=2C and look elsewhere".
Indeed=2C as I said=2C AMD began to use the extended family field with the =
K10.
>>[...] Intel has assigned family 7 for the original Itanium processor
>>[...] there was a bug in original NT 4 truncating family IDs
>>returned by CPUID [...]
>
> That would explain why Intel still shows an oldfashioned family=3D6 on
> many contemporary processors (e.g. core i7). BUT=2C AMD64 processors
> have family=3D15 "almost throughout"=2C and so seem to have at least some
> Intel models.=A0See my second mailing post message for why.
> So that tells us that either NT4 works=2C or nobody uses
> NT4 on fam15s.Family 15 truncated to 3 bits is family 7=2C which do work =
with NT 4=2C while family 8 truncated to 3 bits is family 0.
Yuhong bao 		 	   		 =20
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