[parisc-linux] CPU detection wrong

[dkennedy]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Grant Grundler wrote:

> The only way to do that is get regular updates from the maintainer
> of "Appendix B". hmmm...but there are some issues with this. Updates
> *aren't* regular and only "private" versions of the appendix B is
> maintained. The appendix is hand filtered for public consumption to
> exclude products which haven't released yet. So we'll just have to
> keep grinding along like we do now...complain if something shows
> up as "unknown" and it's got a IODC data.

Ya... Also, it's apparently maintained in a human readable format and not 
in an easily extractable format.  As such, it's even harder to have regular
updates.

It is alright though because the list does not change very often and the only
real changes are new machines.  Once we have critical mass (which I believe we
do) and minor adjustments aren't that much of a problem.

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