From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 16:42:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1FB16A41F; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:42:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F3F43D48; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:42:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.50.41.234] (Not Verified[10.50.41.234]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:58:54 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: obrien@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:43:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <435473D3.8080209@freebsd.org> <20051018152200.GD84920@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20051018152200.GD84920@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510181243.54588.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen , cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Colin Percival Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:42:24 -0000 On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:22 am, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:50:30AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Colin Percival wrote: > > > David O'Brien wrote: > > > > Why is this not clear? > > > > > > > > CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2392.92-MHz K8-class > > > > CPU) > > > > ^^^^ > > ... > > > > This may be clear to *you*, but five years from now I'm sure that *I* > > > won't be able to remember what the AMD Opteron 280 is. > > > > Am I missing something? Would it still say "Dual" if it were not a > > dual core? > > No it would not. I'm not sure what this added: > > CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2394.81-MHz K8-class > .. > Cores per package: 2 Just because your employer formats brand info strings that way doesn't mean other chip manufacturers will. FreeBSD as a project does not just run on your employer's products, so we can't really make assumptions about the layout of description strings that are free-form and vary from vendor to vendor. By obtaining the actual values from registers and outputting them in a vendor-neutral way, FreeBSD as a project can provide this info to our users across architectures (i386 and amd64) and across vendors (AMD and Intel) in a uniform way. This is much more user friendly. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org