Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:24 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > When I wrote schwanz3(*) for fun, I noticed /proc/cpuinfo
> > varies very much on different architectures.
> > 
> > Is it possible to make it look more identical (as far as the different
> > archs allow it)?
> > 
> > So that one at least can count the cpus on every system the same way.
> > 
> > If so, who would the one I should contact and who would accept / verify
> > a patch doing that?
> 
> If you change it now, how many tools would break?
> 

Lots.  Please don't change the format of /proc/cpuinfo.

Lee

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