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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] Added some more fields

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] Added some more fields to host_cpu.
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:47:21 +0000
Cc: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:39:46PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:

>    The second problem is that /proc/cpuinfo fields are very architecture
> specific.  I'd suggest importing arch and having separate cases for x86,
> ia64, and powerpc.  For ia64, think the most appropriate mapping would
> be:

And that there's other OS's that don't stuff things in /proc at all.
Sigh.

john

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