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From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:20:37AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > Exact, it is not about poluting, but about rationalizing. The fact is that
> > these are the two infos that are the most necessary to userland, then why
> > disseminate the info in thousand different places, instead of making it easily
> > available in a canonical place in a standard format for everyone ? 
> 
> cpuinfo is about the cpu, not the board layout nor the firmware
> expectations.

What is the machine: field doing there then ? Would it make sense to provide a
machineinfo then ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther