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Re: PR/35302: Wrong Intel CPUs features display
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2007-03-07 01:40:00
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Nicolas Joly
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:13:46PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti
wrote:
[..]

> > The only problem is that it changes amd64 and not
i386 too.
> 
> i386 does not have the problem; it support Intel CPUs
for quite a long
> time, and display correct CPUs features.

Hmm, ok not Intel CPUs, but AMD CPUs are still displayed
differently on i386:

cpu0: AMD Dual-Core Opteron or Athlon 64 X2 (686-class)

> > IMHO we should move this function into x86.
> 
> I'm not sure for the whole function, but indeed some
parts could be
> shared.

I can't talk about this function because I know to few about
it, but
IMHO all parts which would work on i386 and amd64 should be
shared.

Bernd


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