> Hi Nigel,
>
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> >
> > linker@nightshade.z.ml.org said:
> > } A very good post. I would assume that you approve of minor patching so
> > } that cpuinfo displays the correct information?
> >
> > If this was done then userlevel tools could twiddle happily knowing that
> > they had the right CPU to play with.
>
> This is correct, but it's not a good enough reason to implement a patch:
> it's much easier to write a good user-level utility that will correctly
> detect the CPU type, revision, speed, etc... than to put all of this in
> the kernel.
Lets then remove ALL cpu detection from the kernel.. If you do something
then do it right and completely.. Or dont do it at all.
Actaully, I very much hope that cpu detection is NOT removed from the
kernel.. I doubt it takes much code......