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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: paul%whooppee.com@localhost
Cc: pgoyette%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
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Subject: re: bin/41289: usr.sbin/cpuctl does not correctly identify new Intel 
CPUs
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:02:04 +1000

    
    > 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.
 
 
 my reading of the intel or amd manual a month or so ago said that
 the bios is expected to load 48 chars for the cpuid string.  i don't
 recall which off hand, but i think intel.
 
 
 .mrg.