Subject: Re: port-amd64/37461: x86 cpu dmesg output is noisy
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/08/2007 22:16:14
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Andrew Doran wrote:
> I think most of the CPU ident stuff should move into userland. The kernel
> doesn't need much of it to operate, as far as I remember only basic info
> about the cache, the frequency, cpu family and features. It should not be
> too hard to port the code to userland and make the info available there.
> cpuctl might be a good location for it.

What about eg. arch/i386/i386/procfs_machdep.c ?

Cheers,
Jared