Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:43:52 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c Message-ID: <200510181243.54588.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051018152200.GD84920@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <435473D3.8080209@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.43.0510180047250.12093-100000@sea.ntplx.net> <20051018152200.GD84920@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:22 am, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:50:30AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Colin Percival wrote: > > > David O'Brien wrote: > > > > Why is this not clear? > > > > > > > > CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2392.92-MHz K8-class > > > > CPU) > > > > ^^^^ > > ... > > > > This may be clear to *you*, but five years from now I'm sure that *I* > > > won't be able to remember what the AMD Opteron 280 is. > > > > Am I missing something? Would it still say "Dual" if it were not a > > dual core? > > No it would not. I'm not sure what this added: > > CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2394.81-MHz K8-class > .. > Cores per package: 2 Just because your employer formats brand info strings that way doesn't mean other chip manufacturers will. FreeBSD as a project does not just run on your employer's products, so we can't really make assumptions about the layout of description strings that are free-form and vary from vendor to vendor. By obtaining the actual values from registers and outputting them in a vendor-neutral way, FreeBSD as a project can provide this info to our users across architectures (i386 and amd64) and across vendors (AMD and Intel) in a uniform way. This is much more user friendly. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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