Bug 16362

Summary: AMD K6-3 processor is identified as a P586 machine..
Product: Base System Reporter: aeg <aeg>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description aeg 2000-01-26 09:30:01 UTC 
In 3.3 kernel amdk6-3 (not k6-2) was identified as unknown processor, therefore providing us with great kernel panic right now it is identified as 588, being more 686.

How-To-Repeat: kernel not rcognizing AMD K6-3 processors
Comment 1 kbyanc 2000-01-26 17:17:43 UTC 
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 aeg@iname.com wrote:

> >Description:
> In 3.3 kernel amdk6-3 (not k6-2) was identified as unknown processor,
> therefore providing us with great kernel panic right now it is identified as
> 586, being more 686.

  The CPUID instruction on all k6 processors returns an "instruction
family" value which tells us it is a 586 class processor. This is documented
in the AMD Processor Recognition Application Note:
	http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/pdf/20734.pdf

  Add the following line to your kernel config file and your problems will
likely go away:

cpu		"I586_CPU"

  Kelly

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Kelly Yancey  -  kbyanc@posi.net  -  Richmond, VA
Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries  http://www.bellind.com/
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Comment 2 Doug White freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-05-11 23:58:44 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

No further response from user, assume problem fixed.