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

From: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
To: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, 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: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 03:28:30 +0000

 On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:16:14PM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 > 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 ?
 
 We need to preserve the info there but getting it is easy, just make a few
 cpuid calls. A lot of the verbose identifcation stuff could move out.
 
 Andrew