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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:39:50 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for
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Hi,

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:44:42PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> 
> Here are 2 patches for adding new field extended_cpuid_level, please
> choose PATCH whichever is more appropriate:
> 
> PATCH 1:
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> extended_cpuid_level also gives useful information like cpuid_level
> and very useful for AMD processors.
> 
> Adding extended_cpuid_level in /proc/cpuinfo completes cpuid_level info.

and this is needed because... ?!

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Boris.

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