Re: [PATCH] Re: Discrepancies between /proc/cpuinfo and Dave J's x86info

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <p05100361b77232f67994@[207.213.214.37]>
By author:    Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> At 4:28 PM +0200 2001-07-11, Dave Jones wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> >>  Am I paranoid?
> >
> >Probably :)
> >The Intel CPUs with PSN I've seen simply drop 1 level.
> >What other CPUs support this feature? ISTR Transmeta had it?
> >Do they behave the same?
> >
> >>   I feel nervous about "c->cpuid_level--" inferring
> >>  what we expect to happen to it, would prefer to check it (below).
> >>  +		c->cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0);
> >
> >No biggie, either solution is fine with me.
> 
> HD's version has the advantage of not having to make assumptions 
> about how future CPUs might handle the level, and leaves open the 
> alternative possibility of leaving the level at 3 (or some future 4) 
> and just turning off the serial-number capability.
> 

cpuid_level-- is wrong on at least one existing processor (Crusoe),
which doesn't have CPUID level 2 and therefore goes from 3 to 1.

	-hpa
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