Re: bin/41289: usr.sbin/cpuctl does not correctly identify new Intel CPUs

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41289; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pgoyette%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/41289: usr.sbin/cpuctl does not correctly identify new Intel
 CPUs
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:52:29 -0700 (PDT)

 On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, ad%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > One thing stikes me about this. If we get a text string out of the CPU, why
 > bother trying to pretty-print further?
 
 Hmm, good question.  I'd always thought that the text string was 
 actually loaded into the CPU by BIOS, but I just checked the spec, and 
 that doesn't seem to be true.  (Maybe it is true for AMD processors, I 
 really don't know anymore.)  Regardless, as I see it, we've always tried 
 to make our own determination.
 
 
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