Opened 11 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#9253 closed bug (invalid)

[AboutSystem] Pentium is detected as Core i5

Reported by: dsjonny Owned by: nobody
Priority: low Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/AboutSystem Version: R1/Development
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

On my brother's laptop I still have problem with the Intel Pentium CPU detection. It detects as Intel Core i5, but it is Intel Pentium:

~/Desktop> uname -a
Haiku shredder 1 hrevr1alpha4-44702 Nov 14 2012  BePC Haiku
~/Desktop> sysinfo | head
Kernel name: kernel_x86 built on: Nov 14 2012 16:17:57 version 0x1
2 Intel Core i5, revision 8655 running at 1995MHz (ID: 0x00000000 0x00000000)

CPU #0: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU        P6100  @ 2.00GHz"
        Type 0, family 6, model 37, stepping 5, features 0xbfebfbff
                FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT
                PSE36 CFLUSH DS ACPI MMX FXSTR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE
        Extended Intel: 0x0082e39d
                SSE3 DTES64 MONITOR DS-CPL EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 xTPR PDCM POPCNT
        Extended AMD: type 0, family 0, model 0, stepping 0, features 0x28100000

I use the official R1 Alpha 4.1.

Change History (8)

comment:1 by dsjonny, 11 years ago

Still exists in 45341.

comment:2 by diver, 11 years ago

Component: Kits/Kernel KitApplications/AboutSystem
Owner: changed from axeld to nobody
Summary: Intel Pentium detect problem[AboutSystem] Pentium is detected as Core i5
Version: R1/alpha4.1R1/Development

comment:3 by kallisti5, 10 years ago

The Pentium P6100 is a mobile chipset based on the i5 architecture. As such i'm inclined to mark this one as invalid. We can't possibly keep track of all of the crazy CPU branding these days (relabled this, rebadged that). CPUs don't offer a consistant way to detect the branding, only the generation based on CPUID.

comment:5 by kallisti5, 10 years ago

if you have this machine still with Haiku, go ahead and run sysinfo on an image post-hrev46659 it will dump out some detection information, if it is identifying itself as an i5 there isn't much we can do unless we start building a huge database of Intel CPU brand ID's "P6100, etc"

comment:6 by axeld, 10 years ago

I think we should remove all newer Intel detection code besides the parsing of the name.

comment:7 by pulkomandy, 9 years ago

Priority: normallow

comment:8 by waddlesplash, 5 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
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