On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:39:54 +0900
Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:44:57PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:16:05AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > > is it needed to have strings for P4 and later processors?
> > > brand string provided by cpuid insn isn't enough?
> > 
> > It is only available with P4.
> 
> One more note:
> 
> A better reason is that it is more reliable to use brand id number and
> Intel also recommends that you do so.

Actually read the latest cpuid doc, and though it was saying that you
should use brand string where possible, as it avoids any issue of a
brand id being the same for a chip in it's normal and Xeon form.

Chris