From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753055AbZFEShj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:37:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752106AbZFEShc (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:37:32 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:59615 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751379AbZFEShb (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:37:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for /proc/cpuinfo From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86 maintainers , LKML In-Reply-To: <20090512232122.61f2d7c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1242112482.3283.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090512232122.61f2d7c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:08:35 +0530 Message-Id: <1244227115.2507.3.camel@ht.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Andrew, On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:44:42 +0530 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > > + "ext cpuid level\t: 0x%x\n" > > It's unobvious what "ext" means. External? > > Can we make it "extended cpuid level"? extended cpuid level will look like this : fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes extended cpuid level: 0x80000008 flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid Is this OK ? Thanks, -- JSR