Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:13:37 Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:08:38PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > I think it's generally a good idea to push cpuinfo flags in earliest
> > as possible; just make sure we actually use the final name (so that we don't get
> > into a pni->sse3 mess again) 
> >  
> 
> ida is official name as in the Software Developer's Manual now. So, should
> not be a issue unless marketing folks change their mind in future :-)

Well they did sometimes in the past.

But actually reading the patch: it seems weird to detect the flag 
in acpi-cpufreq and essentially change /proc/cpuinfo when a
module is loaded. Why not in the intel setup function? And why is it 
not in the standard CPUID 1 features mask anyways?

-Andi
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