From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 06:44:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010522064430.D4934@khan.acc.umu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010521215927.B31289@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105220519160.20545-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105220519160.20545-100000@Appserv.suse.de>; from davej@suse.de on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:22:35AM +0200
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:22:35AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Steven Walter wrote:
>
> > > Any particular reason this needs to be done in the kernel, as opposed
> > > to having your script read /dev/cpu/*/cpuid?
> > Wouldn't that be the same reason we have /anything/ in cpuinfo?
>
> When /proc/cpuinfo was added, we didn't have /dev/cpu/*/cpuid
> Now that we do, we're stuck with keeping /proc/cpuinfo for
> compatability reasons.
AFAIK, not all processors support cpuid.
/david
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-22 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-21 12:39 [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-21 15:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-22 2:59 ` Steven Walter
2001-05-22 3:22 ` Dave Jones
2001-05-22 4:44 ` David Weinehall [this message]
2001-05-22 11:15 ` Dave Jones
2001-05-22 22:47 ` Tomas Telensky
2001-05-22 23:43 ` Dave Jones
2001-05-22 23:50 ` Martin Knoblauch
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2001-05-22 8:52 Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-22 9:55 ` Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-22 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-22 18:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-22 23:57 ` Martin Knoblauch
2001-05-23 0:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-23 0:18 ` Tomas Telensky
2001-05-23 1:08 ` Dave Jones
2001-05-23 9:24 ` Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-23 1:48 ` Dave Jones
2001-05-23 7:10 ` Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-22 16:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
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