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 03:51:11 +0000

 On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:32:33PM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 
 > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Andrew Doran wrote:
 > >> 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.
 > 
 > You suggested using cpuctl for reporting this information before -- how 
 > would it make a cpuid call on each cpu from userland?
 
 When we have the APIs to do binding then we are in business. Until then it
 doesn't matter because the current code calls identcpu() $ncpu times on the
 boot CPU.
 
 Andrew