[patch] extending {amd64|i386} cpu info

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Mar 2 10:51:38 UTC 2010


Alexander Best <alexbestms at wwu.de> writes:
> i also think that on some archs it's not possible to output cpu id,
> stepping, family and model simply because there's no cpu instruction
> (CPUID or something similar) returning those info for freebsd to use.

In many cases it doesn't even make sense, e.g. ARM which is an
architecture used by dozens of different chips from dozens of different
manufacturers.  I believe the same applies to MIPS.

DES
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