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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: i386/85656: [Fwd: [patch] expose more i386 specific CPU
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The following reply was made to PR i386/85656; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Ben Thomas <bthomas@virtualiron.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/85656: [Fwd: [patch] expose more i386 specific CPU information]
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:12:10 +0200

 Ben Thomas wrote:
 
 > - add sysctls to expose a number of i386 information:
 >       hw.cpu_type
 >       hw.cpu_feature
 >       hw.cpu_efeature
 >       hw.cpu_high
 >       hw.cpu_id
 >       hw.cpu_procinfo
 >       hw.cpu_brand
 > 
 > [...]
 
 It might be better to use
 
        hw.cpu.type
        hw.cpu.feature
        hw.cpu.efeature
        [...]
 
 instead. This allows you to see all CPU information by calling 'sysctl 
 hw.cpu'. A lot of oids in the format parent.foo_bar has been converted 
 to parent.foo.bar in past.
 
 Regards Björn