Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:40:41 +0200 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags |
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 06:31:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > 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.
10k is nothing, have you looked at tools/perf/ ? :)
greg k-h
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