#1 I fixed by increasing it87 confidence to 8 in CVS. #2 You are correct, at the least a warning message should be issued. Too difficult for my perl skills but if you would like to contribute a patch that would be great. mds Jakub Narebski wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Mark Studebaker wrote: > > > If you send me the isadump output, then I can check, > > but since the it87 has some mfr ID registers that the LM78 doesn't have, > > we can be more confident that it's an IT87 if both are recognized, > > and we should recommend it over the LM78. > > Thats O.K. > > > Isn't that what you wanted? I thought that's what you were complaining about. > > There are two fairly orthogonal aspects: > > 1. If LM78 cannot be recognized as IT87, and IT87 is misrecognized as LM87 > then of course IT87 should have higher confidence. > > 2. If two chips have the same confidence, none should be preffered and the > choice should be left to user (look at your motherboard). > > -- > Jakub Nar?bski > Poland
