Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:43:15 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c Message-ID: <67919.1129628595@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:39:29 %2B1000." <20051018083929.GI7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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In message <20051018083929.GI7346@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writ es: >Any hardware description information that can be extracted from the >system should be accessible without having to physically open the >case. I agree, but the code to do so should be located in userland programs rather than the kernel to the full extent possible. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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