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guix/cpu should parse /sys/devices/system/cpu/modalias

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 74731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74731: guix/cpu should parse /sys/devices/system/cpu/modalias
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:37:22 +0100

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:

> I saw a post by Marcan¹ of Asahi Linux the other day about not parsing
> /proc/cpuinfo and remembered that's what we're doing in (guix cpu).

I believe it initially mimicked what GCC does for ‘-march=native’, but
it does seem to be less exhaustive than /sys/devices/cpu/modalias.

I wonder if there are version/portability issues with the latter.

Ludo’.

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