[syslinux] Distilling down a small set of useful system data

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/27/2011 03:51 PM, Kevin Landreth wrote:
> 
> As a suggestion,  I believe the primary CPU information is returned
> from eax in "00000001" [1]. So what if you just returned an comma
> separated string of hex encoded registers eax,ebx,ecx,edx [2] ?  This
> would always be within the 80 character limit as requested and usable
> to some extent. While not consumable with the naked eye, it is
> parseable and /fairly/ standardised.  One could always re-implement
> the ifcpu.c32 parsing in whatever desired language on the HTTP server.
> 
> Just a suggestion, don't know if it helps any.
> 
> [1] Relevant data from "cpuid":
>    eax in       eax          ebx          ecx         edx
> 00000001 00010676 01040800 000ce33d bfebfbff
> 
> [2] "0x00010676,0x01040800,0x000ce33d,0xbfebfbff"
> 

Sorry, there are a bunch of other bitflags... for example, the long mode
(x86-64) flag is CPUID level 0x80000001.

	-hpa