Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo

To: anderson@metrolink.com (Stuart Anderson)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), wichert@wiggy.net (Wichert Akkerman), lsb-discuss@lists.linuxbase.org, lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
Subject: Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:52:47 +0000 (GMT)
Message-id: <E16MXaJ-0004dv-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-reply-to: <20020104113135.E616-100000@trantor.sc.metrolink.com> from "Stuart Anderson" at Jan 04, 2002 11:34:01 AM

> If you are refering to the code in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c, the code that
> determines the features is spread over several hundred lines of code which
> makes decisions based on model info and various erratta.

What do apps actually care about
	-	MMX
	-	Athlon MMX2
	-	SSE
	-	SSE2
and occasionally
	-	CPU vendor
	-	CPU model

Not rocket science

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