Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:17:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>
To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, jhell <jhell@dataix.net>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [patch] extending {amd64|i386} cpu info
Message-ID: <permail-2010030116175780e26a0b00004721-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d1002281828hb5278d9sbb7a07f790b0da@mail.gmail.com>
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Garrett Cooper schrieb am 2010-03-01: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:19, alexbestms@ wrote: > >> hi there, > >> i always forget how to decipher model and family from the cpu id. > >> of > >> course > >> there're 3rd party tools to do that for you, but instead i decided > >> to hack > >> the > >> kernel. ;) > >> maybe somebody finds these changes useful. > >> cheers. > >> alex > > What about the other arch's ? I only see i386 and amd64. I would > > think if > > this functionality is going to "make it in" that it should be done > > consistantly across the board, the way it is now. i'll have a look at the other archs to see if implementing this can be done just as easy as with i386 and amd64. alex > This is trivial enough of a change that I think it should be done > for amd64/i386. I say that because it may be a bit more difficult for > arm, mips, powerpc, sparc64, etc (probably not as much...). > Thanks, > -Garrett
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