On Wednesday 07 September 2011 10:32:27 Dave Martin wrote:
> Note that the hwcaps info in /proc/cpuinfo is generated from the same
> hwcaps word exposed via auxv so, for now, the information is identical.
>
> I would normally rate parsing /proc/cpuinfo as being a bad idea, but
> /proc/cpuinfo is probably the only source of the part ID information,
> for now. This is a bit unfortunate, especially since the format of
> /proc/cpuinfo could change at some point in the future, but in practice
> it seems to have been pretty stable with respect to this particular
> piece of information.
We do try to keep any ABI stable, including /proc/cpuinfo. I would
generally consider it a bug when it breaks.
Arnd
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