Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:49:22 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl Message-ID: <fme823$2c3$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080113064450.GW57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Peter Jeremy wrote: > A userland program could perform the cpuid functions itself just as > easily as extracting the information from a sysctl. In theory, yes, but not if it's a "system overview" kind of tool not written by someone who knows assembler or for someone who just wants to call a library's "enableSSE()" function, or if the program's not written in C... It would be a good thing to have this facility, and done right (not like text-parsing /proc/cpuinfo in Linux). [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHiqOCldnAQVacBcgRAj5wAJ9++5JsZxx9/w2kQ6X8ro3mwkHc1gCeOFs4 iO8DOy4S/i/Zz3WUMCOReUk= =FDAU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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