Re: bin/41289: usr.sbin/cpuctl does not correctly identify new Intel CPUs

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, ad%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:

> One thing stikes me about this. If we get a text string out of the CPU, why
> bother trying to pretty-print further?

Hmm, good question.  I'd always thought that the text string was 
actually loaded into the CPU by BIOS, but I just checked the spec, and 
that doesn't seem to be true.  (Maybe it is true for AMD processors, I 
really don't know anymore.)  Regardless, as I see it, we've always tried 
to make our own determination.


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