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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:20:06 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] /proc/cpuinfo output from some arch
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:16:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> /proc/cpuinfo was *definitely* meant to be parsed by programs.
> Unfortunately, lots of architectures seems to have completely missed
> that fact.

Sigh, its a shame such things aren't documented somewhere in the
kernel tarball.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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