"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" writes:
> >There's cpuid, but we mentioned that, there's also the P5 counters,
> >though I admit that's doubtful, because they weren't documented for
> >the P5. Now, I was *sure* that there was something else, but I can't
> >seem to find it anymore.. If there's nothing else, night as well change
> >is to 586_CLASS. Unless the P5 counters are going to be used.
> 
> Those are valuable for profiling, are they not?

More interestingly, they are valuable for the kernel RNG -- very
important for that, in fact.

Perry