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[Wilko Bulte]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:16:38PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Andrew Lankford <arlankfo at 141.com> wrote:
>  > http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.i386.i386.identcpu.c
>  > http://www.clabsms.de/FreeBSD/patch.sys.i386.i386.vm_machdep.c
>  > These patches are to support the NSC Geode processor.
> 
> What do you mean -- "support"?  I'm just curious ...
> 
> I've been using NS Geode processors (233 and 300 MHz) for
> quite some time without any problems, and without requiring
> patches.  They're recognized during booting like this:
> 
> CPU: Cyrix GXm (232.74-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "CyrixInstead"  Id = 0x540  DIR=0x8246  Stepping=8  Revision=2
> 
> (Yes, the Geode _is_ a Cyrix processor.)

Same here on my SBC firewall:

wb ~: dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p10 #1: Mon Apr 21 11:41:29 CEST 2003
    root at styx.wbnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STYX
Calibrating clock(s) ... TSC clock: 300697929 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193246 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method
CPU: Cyrix GXm (300.68-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "CyrixInstead"  Id = 0x540  DIR=0x8144  Stepping=8  Revision=1
real memory  = 31981568 (31232K bytes)
Physical memory chunk(s):

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