Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:33:13 +0800 | From | "Jike Song" <> | Subject | Re: What is the best way to identify a new x86 processor that does not implement the CPUID instruction? |
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:08 PM, David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote: > I have thought of a couple of schemes but am not really keen on either: > > 1) Clock speed - the SoC runs at 300+ MHz while the Cyrix part is < 100 MHz at which speed this Soc is running when being recognized as Cyrix part by Linux?
> 2) Look at the PCI VID/PID for the north bridge as this is part of the CPU die. >
As you said, since the manufacturer has provided some codes to tune the CPU speed, did they provide any method to identify the CPU without a cpuid function?
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