Re: symbolic names for processor IDs

2012-09-09 Thread Uros Bizjak
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Uros Bizjak wrote: >> There are some other cpuid vendor signatures than AMD and Intel, > > How about a patch with this complete list? Well, OK then. It won't hurt. The patch is OK for mainline with appropria

Re: symbolic names for processor IDs

2012-09-08 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Uros Bizjak wrote: > There are some other cpuid vendor signatures than AMD and Intel, How about a patch with this complete list? d-gcc-cpuid-signature Description: Binary data

Re: symbolic names for processor IDs

2012-09-08 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Uros Bizjak wrote: > There are some other cpuid vendor signatures than AMD and Intel, and > probably there will be some more. Sure, if there are still people using those they can easily add those. > IMO, anybody using __get_cpuid_max > call should define accepted

Re: symbolic names for processor IDs

2012-09-08 Thread Uros Bizjak
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