RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl

[Ivan Voras]

Peter Jeremy wrote:

> A userland program could perform the cpuid functions itself just as
> easily as extracting the information from a sysctl.

In theory, yes, but not if it's a "system overview" kind of tool not 
written by someone who knows assembler or for someone who just wants to 
call a library's "enableSSE()" function, or if the program's not written 
in C...

It would be a good thing to have this facility, and done right (not like 
text-parsing /proc/cpuinfo in Linux).


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