On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:22:35AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Steven Walter wrote:
>
> > > Any particular reason this needs to be done in the kernel, as opposed
> > > to having your script read /dev/cpu/*/cpuid?
> > Wouldn't that be the same reason we have /anything/ in cpuinfo?
>
> When /proc/cpuinfo was added, we didn't have /dev/cpu/*/cpuid
> Now that we do, we're stuck with keeping /proc/cpuinfo for
> compatability reasons.
AFAIK, not all processors support cpuid.
/david
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