test11-pre5 breaks vmware
Quoted 3 lines · H. Peter Anvin
Also, if a piece of software needs raw CPUID information (unlike the "cooked" one provided by recent kernels) it should use
/dev/cpu/*/cpuid.
There are two problems, first breaking procfs field name for no good reason (you can name x86 features as 'flags' and amd/cyrix/...
as you named... There is certainly fewer apps which search 'flags' for AMD feature than apps which search 'flags' for x86 feature; you can also emulate old flags field by merging all features together, but I'm not asking for this).
Second problem is that I know no system which has /dev/cpu/*/* file. Maybe it is just my problem...
But if you could modify cpuid/msr registration interface so that they'll appear on my /devfs, it would be much nicer. Currently there is only 'microcode' and 'mtrr' in /devfs/cpu, and no 0,1 subdirectories...
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]
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