Processor name

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:24:13PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
 > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:48 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
 > > With current HAL, my info.product for my processor is the following:
 > > 
 > > "Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz"
 > > 
 > > This is exposed in gnome-system-monitor and should have the extra
 > > spaces removed.
 > > 
 > > Two things:
 > > 
 > > 1) Is there a simple glib function to remove the double spaces in an
 > > allocated string?
 > > 2) Is this available in sysfs somewhere?
 > 
 > Isn't the right answer to let the presentation layer fix up such things?
 > Do we removing such whitespace anywhere else? I don't think so...
 > Passing the 48 bytes passed from the CPUID instruction is probably what
 > we still want to do on x86.

Not all x86's offer those cpuid levels, so doing this in hal would be
a really bad idea, as you'd need to duplicate all the hoop-jumping the
kernel does to provide a name in /proc/cpuinfo for those earlier CPUs.

 > . Another point is that we get this stuff from /proc/acpi, yuck

ITYM /proc/cpuinfo ?

		Dave

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