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    Followup to:  <p05100358b771879535bc@[207.213.214.37]>
    By author: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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    > At 9:27 PM -0700 2001-07-10, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > > > According to Dave J's utility the cpu's appear to be exactly the same
    > >> just as the Intel boxes said when I bought them. What might be causing
    > >> these values to be different. And if the BIOS is setting things up
    > >> incorrectly then why does Dave J's utility show the correct values?
    > >> Thanks for any help.
    > >>
    > >
    > >/proc/cpuinfo shows "cooked" values which may be modified by the
    > >kernel, depending on what it knows about CPU errata or kernel
    > >capabilities.
    >
    > Max cpuid level doesn't get cooked by the kernel, though (at least
    > not in 2.4.6).
    >
    > Level 3 is the Intel's CPU serial number "feature". Didn't Intel back
    > off on that? Maybe that has something to do with it, and perhaps the
    > utility is doing the cooking.
    >

    Actually, the kernel kills it if it detects it.

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