>> Actually, I know of at least one other shipping commercial
>> product (Sitraka's JProbe Java Profiler) that will require
>> patching because of this change. It seems unwise to be
>> changing field names in commonly used /proc files like
>> cpuinfo at this point in time.
>
> The problem with "
On 15 Nov 00 at 12:12, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
There are two problems, first breaking procfs field name for no good reason
(you can name x86 features
Michel LESPINASSE wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:12:15PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> > "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> > /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
>
> Is it also OK to use the cpuid opcode in user
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:12:15PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the
> "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
> /dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
Is it also OK to use the cpuid opcode in userspace ? (after checking
for its presence
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> >
> > Oh. I did not compiled 11-test5, as G450 finally arrived ;-) OK,
> > I'll release patch for vmware, as I cannot stop kernel developers
> > from changing field names :-)
>
> Act
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 15 Nov 00 at 1:59, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
> > attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
> > flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features"
On 15 Nov 00 at 17:47, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 15 Nov 00 at 1:59, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
> > attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
> > flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features
On 15 Nov 00 at 1:59, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
> attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
> flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features" so it otherwise fails
> complaining that my 2xP6 has
Hi Petr,
You probably noticed this already but I just wanted to bring it to your
attention that /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script needs updating since the
flags in /proc/cpuinfo is now called "features" so it otherwise fails
complaining that my 2xP6 has no tsc. Trivial change but still worthy of
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