Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:58:45 +0100 | From | Lenart Gabor <> | Subject | /proc/cpuinfo AND proc fs |
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Hi,
Some days ago I had to install Linux to many computers with many different type of CPUs with many differnt type of bugs :) File /proc/cpuinfo is great to show them but I think it would be better to summarize this information in ONE line. In 2.1.131 : fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : yes 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.
My other question is about modularizing proc file system. OK, it's sound silly and present module tools probably needs mounted /proc to load a module :). The main problem with /proc that text output (like the absolute /proc/pci) takes many memory. So it would be implement simplier that compile only basic things into kernel and using loadable modules when these nice but memory eater files are requested to read (or write ...).
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