linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: add /proc/cpuinfo/physical id quirks

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Message-ID: <4A8DC857.7060002@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:04:07 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
CC:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add /proc/cpuinfo/physical id quirks

On 08/20/2009 02:59 PM, Alex Chiang wrote:
> 
> Once you go down this path of thinking though, ACPI starts
> looming, and that has other issues associated with it (in my
> mind, mostly around the cleanliness of implementation as ACPI
> starts poking its fingers everywhere).
> 

Seems more like DMI than ACPI to me, but this kind of stuff is already
creeping into everything no matter what.

*However* the whole point of this is to not muck with data structures
that the kernel actually cares about in any way, and have a separate
field which is only for human consumption.

	-hpa
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