Luck, Tony wrote on Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:33 AM > > Why not have "model name" with the text name, like on ia32? > > > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 15 > > model : 4 > > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz > > stepping : 1 > > This sounds like an excellent plan. We can even use the new > (in SDM2.2 p. 2:345) PAL_BRAND_INFO call to get the right > (Intel marketting/legal approved) string. For older systems > that don't implement PAL_BRAND_INFO we could have some fallback > code that decodes family/model to Merced/McKinley/Madison. I would also like to take this opportunity to revamp feature string. It is way too long, and should be either two or three letter acronym like x86: X86 feature string: "flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce ... " - features : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops + features : lb ao - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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