So

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp  is Ok regardless or the FSB speed?

Renat Golubchyk wrote:

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:32, Robert Young wrote:
> "Hemmann, Volker Armin" wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:10, Robert Young wrote:

  <snip>

> > >
> > > This is my cat cpuinfo
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# cat cpuinfo
> > > processor       : 0
> > > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > > cpu family      : 6
> > > model           : 6
> > > model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
> > > stepping        : 2
> > > cpu MHz         : 1110.953
> > > cache size      : 256 KB
> > > fdiv_bug        : no
> > > hlt_bug         : no
> > > f00f_bug        : no
> > > coma_bug        : no
> > > fpu             : yes
> > > fpu_exception   : yes
> > > cpuid level     : 1
> > > wp              : yes
> > > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> > > mca cmov
> > > pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> > > bogomips        : 2215.11
> > >
> > >
> > > I was expecting something more like this
> > >
> > >
> > > cat /proc/cpuinfo:
> > >
> > > processor       : 0
> > > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > > cpu family      : 6
> > > model           : 6
> > > model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
> > > stepping        : 2
> > > cpu MHz         : 1533.411
> > > cache size      : 256 KB
> > > fdiv_bug        : no
> > > hlt_bug         : no
> > > f00f_bug        : no
> > > coma_bug        : no
> > > fpu             : yes
> > > fpu_exception   : yes
> > > cpuid level     : 1
> > > wp              : yes
> > > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
> > >                   cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext
> > >                   3dnow
> > > bogomips        : 3060.53
> >
> > yeah. I bet you have a fsb of 100MHZ.
> > XP needs an FSB of 133MHZ.
>
> I believe my FSB speed is configurable (In the BIOS). Are you saying if I
> increase it to 133 cat cpuinfo | grep modelname will give me "model name
> : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+" or something similar?

It should. At least mine did. I could see it even while booting the machine:
with FSB of 100MHz it showed "Athlon 1100MHz", with FSB of 133MHz it shows
"AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+".

Cheers,
Renat

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