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Name: me too
Date: February 14, 2001 at 12:34:28
Subject: Re: FOSTER CPUID
In Reply To: Re: FOSTER CPUID by
Johnny on February 14, 2001 at 03:11:37
Text: || I don't get it.
||
|| Masking out the MSB of family=7=0111 would still be 0111=7.
|
| Yes, but family 7 was already assigned to Itanium. Therefore, Pentium 4
| had to be assigned family 0fh so that Windows NT would identify a family
| 7 cpu (lower values were not acceptable for obvious reasons).
|
| Check out the story at:
| http://www.linux.com/hardware/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=11457

I still don't get it.

Why didn't they assign family=7 to both, the Itanium and the P4, and then
assign different extended family values to them?

Oh, and does NT really work on an Itanium?

No matter which way I look at it -- it's Intel's fault. Once again they
went with a crappy solution, causing everyone else pain.


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