On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:23:25 -0400 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:57:24AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > > This seems like yet another list that will need to be perpetually
> > > kept up to date, and given 99% of users don't know the codename
> > > of their core, just the marketing name, I question its value.
> >
> > As a bare minimum requirement the list presented here shall use same
> > names as used in /proc/cpuinfo
> >
> > On this box I read:
> >
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
>
> There are *dozens* of possible entries here, and always new ones.
> The list will become so cumbersome that searching for the name
> through the help text of each possible option will become a
> really boring task, that I doubt anyone will seriously do.
Yep. help text: see www.wikipedia.org :)
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~Randy
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