Re: Kernel cpu selection + other platforms?

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:07:58 +0100 (GMT/BST)

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Teunis Peters wrote:

> [all cyrix] : No I/O recovery delays
> (rendered useless by branch prediction)
> [prolly would work on non-cyrix too]

I/O recovery delay is nothing to do with branch prediction and the
Cyrix implementation is Cyrix specific.

> But is CPUID available outside kernel?

Yes. At the very least you can read /proc/cpuinfo.

Mike

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