From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 19:37:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8431065672; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB328FC1B; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30D01B911; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:37:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Andriy Gapon Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:39:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p17; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201209211031.q8LAVKVC014601@svn.freebsd.org> <5061D84D.4020400@FreeBSD.org> <5061E864.8090200@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5061E864.8090200@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201209251339.08573.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:37:25 -0400 (EDT) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric Subject: Re: svn commit: r240773 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 i386/i386 X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:37:26 -0000 On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:22:44 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 09/25/12 19:14 Dimitry Andric said the following: > > Are we interested more in "beautifying", than giving > > unambiguous information? > > OTOH, I have never seen CPUID numbers in decimal. And the place you typically will use these is in looking at Intel's manuals in which case they have the _h layout. If you want to gratuitously change the format, I'd vote for outputting the string as '06_2Ah'. Note that the full ID is already printed out earlier on the same line with a trailing 0x, so it's not clear to me that it was confusing before. -- John Baldwin