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From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org>
To: "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
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Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl
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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.


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