Re: Discrepancies between /proc/cpuinfo and Dave J's x86info

From: Jonathan Lundell (jlundell@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 00:04:17 EST

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At 9:44 PM -0700 2001-07-10, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Level 3 is the Intel's CPU serial number "feature". Didn't Intel back
>> off on that? Maybe that has something to do with it, and perhaps the
>> utility is doing the cooking.
>>
>
>Actually, the kernel kills it if it detects it.

Not unconditionally, though. And (to the original question), it's not
clear why two CPUs would be treated differently.

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/Jonathan Lundell.
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