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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:49:34 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386
	identcpu.c
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote..
> In message <20051018083929.GI7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writ
> es:
> 
> >Any hardware description information that can be extracted from the
> >system should be accessible without having to physically open the
> >case.
> 
> I agree, but the code to do so should be located in userland programs
> rather than the kernel to the full extent possible.

But still the kernel needs to gather that information somehow.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org