Hello! > The x86 cpuid instruction returns a processor ID and the > __get_cpuid_max function even explicitly makes the %ebx value directly > available. But users of that function have to use a cryptic constant. > How about adding a few macros to make this more transparent?
There are some other cpuid vendor signatures than AMD and Intel, and probably there will be some more. IMO, anybody using __get_cpuid_max call should define accepted signatures by itself. Uros.