The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/37461; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/37461: x86 cpu dmesg output is noisy
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:16:14 -0500 (EST)

 On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Andrew Doran wrote:
 > I think most of the CPU ident stuff should move into userland. The kernel
 > doesn't need much of it to operate, as far as I remember only basic info
 > about the cache, the frequency, cpu family and features. It should not be
 > too hard to port the code to userland and make the info available there.
 > cpuctl might be a good location for it.
 
 What about eg. arch/i386/i386/procfs_machdep.c ?
 
 Cheers,
 Jared