Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo

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Subject: Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:15:49 +0100
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Previously Stuart Anderson wrote:
> I'd like avoid /proc completely, but we needed a way to determine what
> processor features are available (especially on IA32). Without this,
> we have to choose the i486 feature set as the least common denominator
> (ie no MMX, etc).

I'm not quite sure that is a bad thing actually.

Wichert.

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