On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:25:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> model string : IvyBridge_X >> >> ... or something like that. The string could even be auto-generated from the >> list >> in intel-family.h? > > Yap, that sounds cool too. And then we should issue that too during boot: > I like that approach too. It avoids going online to check what micro-architecture the number maps too. Yet, I wonder how portable that is.
> [ 0.542398] smpboot: CPU0: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (family: > 0x15, model: 0x2, stepping: 0x0; Piledriver) > > so that we don't need to ask for dmesg *and* /proc/cpuinfo. > > Hohumm, this should be very useful. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.

