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[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:16 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > 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.

Sure, I didn't mean to imply we that HAL would be doing that. No no.

     David