linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 11:47:32 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
CC:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for
 /proc/cpuinfo

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
>>  It hardly "completes" /proc/cpuinfo; especially if you consider that
>> there are at least three additional ranges in wide use (two used by a
>> single vendor only, and the third by virtualization software.)
> 
> I think both vendors use the two ranges :-o).
> 

No, I'm taking about the 0x8086xxxx and 0xC000xxxx used by two other
vendors (neither of which you and I work for, and at least one of which
is defunct.)

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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