Re: /proc/cpuinfo on a 486

Rafael Reilova (rreilova@ececs.uc.edu)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:38:42 -0500 (EST)


Hi,

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote:

> I'm running 2.0.0pre6 on a 486DX4/120, /proc/cpuinfo seems to be
> ok:

It is usually a matter of wether your processor is recent enough to have
the cpuid instruction (with Cyrixes being the exception). Older 486 don't
have it and Linux is left guessing.

Cheers,

Rafael

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