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 _ _ // David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ </ Full colour fire </ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuin... Martin.Knoblauch
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /p... H. Peter Anvin
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes t... Steven Walter
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache siz... Dave Jones
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache... David Weinehall
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 ... Dave Jones
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes t... Tomas Telensky
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache siz... Dave Jones
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache siz... Martin Knoblauch
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /p... Martin.Knoblauch
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes t... Martin.Knoblauch
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache siz... H. Peter Anvin
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache... Alan Cox
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache... Martin Knoblauch
- Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 ... H. Peter Anvin