From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 13 23:49:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEA716A418 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B8213C447 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JECa3-0007Kp-T6 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:49:31 +0000 Received: from 78-1-65-184.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.1.65.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:49:31 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-1-65-184.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:49:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:49:22 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080113064450.GW57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig68BDE2746B71C9F5887DC8D6" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-1-65-184.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: news Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:49:34 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig68BDE2746B71C9F5887DC8D6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 written by someone who knows assembler or for someone who just wants to=20 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). --------------enig68BDE2746B71C9F5887DC8D6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----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----- --------------enig68BDE2746B71C9F5887DC8D6--