Why Quadro 4000 appears as GF100 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS?

On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS WHY the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 showen as GF100? ;

lspci

0f:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 [Quadro 4000] (rev a3)

0f:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

lshw
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GF100 [Quadro 4000]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0f:00.0
version: a3
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:24 memory:ec000000-edffffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff(prefetchable) memory:e8000000-ebffffff(prefetchable) ioport:e000(size=128) memory:ee080000-ee0fffff(prefetchable)
*-multimedia UNCLAIMED
description: Audio device
product: GF100 High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:0f:00.1
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:ee000000-ee003fff

I’m not quite sure to understand the question behind the question, but I guess that since Quadro 4000 is based on GPU core GF100 (as are many other Fermi cards such as GeForce GTX480, Tesla C2050, C2070) that seems like a sensible information to display.

Gilles_C

Thank you for the clarification, actually I didn’t know that the GF100 is the GPU core on the Quadro 4000

Regards