From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Montecito processor family
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:30:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149132658.12367.75.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42ADD890.1010406@free.fr>
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:06 -0500, Russ Anderson wrote:
> It would be nice to have a "model name" text description,
> for people that don't know the meaning of 32. There are
> people that need to use the right flavor of CPU that know
> the English name. It's easier to have the code print the
> text name than teach them the cryptic numbers.
I second this. It shouldn't be as hard as it currently is to
determine what processor is installed in the system. The common names
are well enough advertised, even if unofficial. The family/model
numbers don't mean much to most people. Thanks,
Alex
--
Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-01 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 19:03 Montecito processor family Menyhart, Zoltan
2005-06-13 19:17 ` Yu, Fenghua
2005-11-09 13:54 ` Takayoshi Kochi
2005-11-09 15:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-10 1:50 ` Takayoshi Kochi
2006-06-01 0:03 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-01 1:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-01 3:06 ` Russ Anderson
2006-06-01 3:30 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2006-06-01 16:32 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-02 6:51 ` dann frazier
2006-06-02 22:18 ` Russ Anderson
2006-06-03 18:43 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-03 19:23 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-06-05 20:37 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-06 18:04 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-06 18:16 ` Alex Williamson
2006-06-06 18:59 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-07 9:22 ` Jes Sorensen
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