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Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:27:03 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [OT] /proc/cpuinfo output from some arch
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Russell King wrote:
> 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.
> 

No kidding...

	-hpa


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