[sldev] CPU detection code

[Dale Glass]

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Dirk Moerenhout wrote:
> The issue is mostly that it doesn't identify any recent CPU. It just
> gives very generic info resulting in: Intel Pentium Pro (Unknown
> model)    146003 AMD (Unknown model)    110162 Intel Pentium 4
> (Unknown model)    103905
>
> That's about 70% of the registered CPU's.
>
> It's not too hard to improve upon that but in the end what we really
> need is statistics on the features the CPU supports. Just a list with
>  total cpu's and how many of them support SSE, SSE2 and 3D!Now would
> do wonders.

Why not just read the data from /proc/cpuinfo? It includes about
everything you might want to know as far as I can tell.

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