Re: port-i386/38634: x86 kernels no longer produces information about cpus

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/38634; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Chris Gilbert <chris%dokein.co.uk@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
chris%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/38634: x86 kernels no longer produces information
        about cpus
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:44:30 +0000

 On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:47:34PM +0100, Chris Gilbert wrote:
  > >  Items like the TLB and L1 cache information are never used. The list of
  > >  feature flags reported was incomplete and even at that, it was already a
  > >  large amount of information to casually sift through.
  > 
  > So why do we even bother working it out then?
 
 As I recall from the discussion, that was part of the point of
 removing it. :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
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