[patch] extending {amd64|i386} cpu info

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, jhell <jhell at dataix.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:19, alexbestms@ wrote:
>>
>> hi there,
>>
>> i always forget how to decipher model and family from the cpu id. of
>> course
>> there're 3rd party tools to do that for you, but instead i decided to hack
>> the
>> kernel. ;)
>>
>> maybe somebody finds these changes useful.
>>
>> cheers.
>> alex
>>
>
>
> What about the other arch's ? I only see i386 and amd64. I would think if
> this functionality is going to "make it in" that it should be done
> consistantly across the board, the way it is now.

    This is trivial enough of a change that I think it should be done
for amd64/i386. I say that because it may be a bit more difficult for
arm, mips, powerpc, sparc64, etc (probably not as much...).
Thanks,
-Garrett