405EX Rev D mis-identification?

Lee Nipper lee.nipper at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 03:59:29 EST 2010


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:06, Marc Chidester <marcchidester at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like the Rev D version of the 405EX chip without security
> will be identified as a 405EXr, based on the values in the cpu_specs
> table.

Yes, that is the case.
The 405EX Rev D without security PVR matches an old 405EXr A/B with security,
and hence the cpu_spec entries' pvr_mask values are no longer correct.

> Is there an algorithm update needed or am I missing something?

Perhaps add more cpu_spec table entries for the 405EX & 405EXr with
pvr_mask = 0xffff000f  ?


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