The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/37461; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/37461: x86 cpu dmesg output is noisy
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:32:33 -0500 (EST)

 On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Andrew Doran wrote:
 > > What about eg. arch/i386/i386/procfs_machdep.c ?
 >
 > We need to preserve the info there but getting it is easy, just make a few
 > cpuid calls. A lot of the verbose identifcation stuff could move out.
 
 You suggested using cpuctl for reporting this information before -- how 
 would it make a cpuid call on each cpu from userland?
 
 Cheers,
 Jared