Re: Increasing minimum 'i386' processor

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, 2011-11-20, 20:48:
> Use of CPUID is probably safe in practice since most 486 models do 
> implement it, though userland should really read /proc/cpuinfo.  The 
> other uses may be conditional on a CPU feature test but may well be 
> bugs.

Is format of /proc/cpuinfo documented anywhere?

Does /proc/cpuinfo with the exist on non-Linux architectures? If yes, 
do they use the same format?

Are the any ready-made libraries that can parse this file?

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Jakub Wilk