Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo AND proc fs | | Date | 7 Dec 1998 19:41:51 GMT |
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Followup to: <19981207125845.D19487@knt.terra.vein.hu> By author: Lenart Gabor <lgb@hal2000.hal.vein.hu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > It would be better to have ONE line with cpu_bugs, and show bugs which > are present, or something similar like this : > cpu_bugs : f00f > > It's very easy to implement, only modifiy some line in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c > (it's easy for me too, surprise ! :) get_cpuinfo function. >
Actually it isn't better, as it leaves out a key piece of information: it makes it no longer possible to distinguish between a bug which isn't present, and a bug which a certain kernel doesn't know how to detect.
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