[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #4644: [AboutSystem] Celeron is detected as Pentium III
- From: "v" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:47:26 -0000
#4644: [AboutSystem] Celeron is detected as Pentium III
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Reporter: totish | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/AboutSystem | Version: R1/alpha1
Keywords: | Blockedby:
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Comment(by v):
Replying to [comment:5 siarzhuk]:
> AFAIR, "Intel Processor Identification and CPUID function" requires to
investigate contents of Brand ID register to distingush Celeron from PIII.
>
> IMO, all those "pagan dances" with parsing of model strings have nothign
to do with consistency and should be thrown away. :-\
Chapter 6, of the document you point at, prefers the Brand String (what I
referred to as 'model string') over Brand ID.
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