[patch] extending {amd64|i386} cpu info

[Alexander Best]

Garrett Cooper schrieb am 2010-03-01:
> 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.

i'll have a look at the other archs to see if implementing this can be done
just as easy as with i386 and amd64.

alex

>     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