Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 13:15:15 +0200 (CEST) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, David Weinehall wrote:
> > > Wouldn't that be the same reason we have /anything/ in cpuinfo? > > When /proc/cpuinfo was added, we didn't have /dev/cpu/*/cpuid > > Now that we do, we're stuck with keeping /proc/cpuinfo for > > compatability reasons. > > AFAIK, not all processors support cpuid.
Fair point, but as there was limited information available from the CPU, the likelyhood of /proc/cpuinfo getting extended further is somewhat unlikely. Moreso if the feature can be accomplished equally as well in userspace (Like the original post in this thread).
regards,
Dave.
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