Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:44:09 -0800 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl Message-ID: <e7db6d980801131844g2f88bf96te4b4beed5a144457@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a2b6592c0801131721w25afae5bg3dcf6a90c1a3d2b7@mail.gmail.com> References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080113064450.GW57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <a2b6592c0801131721w25afae5bg3dcf6a90c1a3d2b7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 13, 2008 5:21 PM, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote: > On 13/01/2008, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > > IMHO, no. Virtually all similar FreeBSD information is exported via > > sysctl and this sort of information fits neatly into the existing > > MIB tree as either dev.cpu.N.features or hw.cpu.features > > /dev/sndstat? That is a special case. It was an externally defined API that we needed to be compatible with. OSS ran on everything from Linux to SVR4 to FreeBSD at the time. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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