Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:51:36 +0100
From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>
Cc: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [patch] extending {amd64|i386} cpu info
Message-ID: <86ocj7m1xj.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <permail-20100302002948f0889e8400002f05-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> (Alexander Best's message of "Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:29:48 %2B0100 (CET)")
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Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> writes: > i also think that on some archs it's not possible to output cpu id, > stepping, family and model simply because there's no cpu instruction > (CPUID or something similar) returning those info for freebsd to use. In many cases it doesn't even make sense, e.g. ARM which is an architecture used by dozens of different chips from dozens of different manufacturers. I believe the same applies to MIPS. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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