RE: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags

[Luck, Tony]

> In general, this should say something along the lines that /proc/cpuinfo
> shows features which the kernel supports.
>
> "For a full list of CPUID flags which the CPU supports, use
> tools/arch/x86/tools/cpuid/cpuid"
>
> :-)

Dave Hansen had suggested (offline) that we add a cpuid tool to the kernel sources.

I think that's a lot of (duplicated) work for someone to maintain.  The version of this
tool at http://www.etallen.com/cpuid.html is close to 10K lines of code.

-Tony