I'm also going to remove the PR rating from the model name since we now
have megahertz detection and PR ratings are stupid and inaccurate in any
case.
--Jauder
On 12 Dec 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <19981211103854.A11723@daemon.xs4all.nl>
> By author: Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.nl>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > If you wish for your kernel to show '3dnow!' instead of '31', you can change
> > the string in that piece of code. I suspect, however, that it isn't done in
> > the stock kernel because flag 31 isn't 'officially' 3dnow!, and intel might
> > use it for itself in some way (and screw 3dnow! drivers/applications that
> > dont check if the cpu is, indeed, an AMD.) -- This is just a guess though, I
> > dont know enough about ia32 and who specifies what to say anything
> > meaningful about it.
> >
> > (Note that changing 31 into 3dnow! _could_ break code that checks if flag 31
> > is set by reading /proc/cpuinfo. I dont know of any such code and it'd be
> > silly code anyway (because who knows what the flag will be named in later
> > kernels) but I'll mention it none the less :)
> >
>
> Please, no exclamation points!
>
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