On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com> wrote:
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>> Best thing would be to print it once per socket, i.e. for the first
>> core of each physical CPU.
>>
>> Oh, and the flags can be subtly different for other CPUs in the
>> system, even if they are exactly the same model, because the BIOS can
>> enable/disable some features.
>
> Yes to the first, and the second, also because the repair guy put in a
> different chip revision in one socket, or anybody else that had their
> fingers inside the case. Per-socket seems like it would be good.

Hmm, how about only printing them for the first core on a CPU, and
even then suppressing them on additional CPUs when they exactly match
the first CPU's?  If that's too complicated, just suppress them on any
core that has the same flags as the primary core.  Either way, if you
see flags on other cores you know something is different, unlike now
where you have to eyeball the lists, or the column the lists end...


Philip Guenther