can't identify celeron 850

ollie lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Sun Nov 3 21:06:01 CET 2002


On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:52, zhu shi song wrote:
> Hi, 
>   I'm using freebios-cvs , linux-kernel 2.4.18, 
> mainboard winfast6300, When I use celeron 766, linux 
> booted by linuxbios can identify it correctly, but
> when 
> I change cpu to celeron 850, linux can't identify it, 
> dmsg info show the cpu is 560Mhz.  what's the problem,
>  

LinuxBIOS does not program the clock generator on the MB,
so the clock gen will driver the FSB with 66MHz for Celeron,
but recent Celeron are comming with 100 MHz FSB.

Ollie





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