[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Alexander Kolbasov wrote:
>>     
>>>> psrinfo -vp currently outputs processor IDs in 'digested' form:
>>>>
>>>> The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0)
>>>>    x86 (AuthenticAMD family 15 model 37 step 1 clock 2210 MHz)
>>>>          AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 848
>>>>         
>>> Note that psrinfo doesn't do anything smart here. It just prints whatever 
>>> value of the implementation string is provided in cpu_info kstat. The value 
>>> itself is completely determined by the platform code.
>>>       
>> oh, yes, absolutely; the change is actually to the kernel.  The only place I 
>> know that string is *used* is in psrinfo, but it does in fact show up in 
>> "kstat 
>> cpu_info" as well.
>>     
>
>
> I would think that this is a useful change to make; I have on occassion
> needed to either read the register directly or convert it back.
>   

+1.  :-)  There are some bits there that aren't exposed via kstat now. 
I needed this with certain Via processors, for example.
> Casper
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