Re: cpuctl on Quad Core Xeon?

[David Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> Trying to be clever by parsing strings is just asking for complains  
> with
> the next set of CPUs where it will fail or give wrong data. The  
> current
> approach is to simply return what Intel wired into the CPUs, so it  
> is as
> good or bad as whatever Intel decided you should know. This is  
> somewhat
> different for AMD where you actually get a new CPU family for each
> generation with changed feature set.

Perhaps what cpuctl should do is just print "Family f, Model m",  
rather than assuming that a given family/model maps to a specific  
processor name? Or only do that for the cases where it's known not to  
map to a specific processor name.
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