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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Paweâ Sikora" <pluto@pld-linux.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ix86,x86_64] cpu features.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:11:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smarrpau.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2sMat-61I-43@gated-at.bofh.it> (Paweâ Sikora's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:30:17 +0200")

Paweâ Sikora <pluto@pld-linux.org> writes:

> +++ linux-2.6.8-rc4/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c	2004-08-13 16:48:53.971370504 +0200
> @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
>  		NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
>  
>  		/* Intel-defined (#2) */
> -		"pni", NULL, NULL, "monitor", "ds_cpl", NULL, NULL, "tm2",
> -		"est", NULL, "cid", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +		"sse3", NULL, NULL, "monitor", "ds_cpl", NULL, NULL, "est",
> +		"tm2", NULL, "cid", NULL, NULL, NULL, "xtpr", NULL,


You cannot just do the pni -> sse3 rename. That could break existing
applications that read /proc/cpuinfo and parse it. The only way would
be to add a new sse3 flag in addition to pni, but I guess that would
be not worth the ugly special case.

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2004-08-13 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2sMat-61I-43@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-13 16:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-13 17:02   ` [PATCH] [ix86,x86_64] cpu features Paweł Sikora
2004-08-13 17:08     ` Paweł Sikora
2004-08-13 20:14     ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-13 20:29       ` Paweł Sikora
     [not found] <200408242233.i7OMXrTd001684@hera.kernel.org>
2004-08-25  0:47 ` [PATCH] ix86,x86_64 " Jeff Garzik
2004-08-13 15:24 [PATCH] [ix86,x86_64] " Paweł Sikora

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