Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:31:50 +0000 |
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> In general, this should say something along the lines that /proc/cpuinfo > shows features which the kernel supports. > > "For a full list of CPUID flags which the CPU supports, use > tools/arch/x86/tools/cpuid/cpuid" > > :-)
Dave Hansen had suggested (offline) that we add a cpuid tool to the kernel sources.
I think that's a lot of (duplicated) work for someone to maintain. The version of this tool at http://www.etallen.com/cpuid.html is close to 10K lines of code.
-Tony
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