>> Cobalt MIPS servers are known to have QED RM5200 processor.
>>
>> cvs rdiff -r1.1 -r1.2 syssrc/sys/arch/cobalt/cobalt/cpu.c
>
> Why duplicate all this in each port?

Maintaining cpu_identify() routine in mips/mips_machdep.c is rather,
really indeed, pain.  Port-specific cpu_attach() is intended to
pretty-print CPU characteristics which should be known by
port-maintainers as prerequisites.

Tohru Nishimura