Re: /proc/cpuinfo AND proc fs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
7 Dec 1998 19:41:51 GMT

Followup to: <19981207125845.D19487@knt.terra.vein.hu>
By author: Lenart Gabor <lgb@hal2000.hal.vein.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It would be better to have ONE line with cpu_bugs, and show bugs which
> are present, or something similar like this :
> cpu_bugs : f00f
>
> It's very easy to implement, only modifiy some line in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
> (it's easy for me too, surprise ! :) get_cpuinfo function.
>

Actually it isn't better, as it leaves out a key piece of information:
it makes it no longer possible to distinguish between a bug which
isn't present, and a bug which a certain kernel doesn't know how to
detect.

-hpa

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