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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>
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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).



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