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6 cpuid - x86 CPUID access device
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9 CPUID provides an interface for querying information about the x86 CPU.
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11 This device is accessed by lseek(2) or pread(2) to the appropriate
12 CPUID level and reading in chunks of 16 bytes. A larger read size
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15 The lower 32 bits of the file position is used as the incoming %eax,
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19 This driver uses /dev/cpu/CPUNUM/cpuid, where CPUNUM is the minor num‐
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23 This file is protected so that it can be read only by the user root, or
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27 The CPUID instruction can be directly executed by a program using
28 inline assembler. However this device allows convenient access to all
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31 Most of the information in cpuid is reported by the kernel in cooked
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33 /sys/devices/system/cpu. Direct CPUID access through this device
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36 The cpuid driver is not auto-loaded. On modular kernels you might need
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41 There is no support for CPUID functions that require additional input
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44 Very old x86 CPUs don't support CPUID.
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49 Intel Corporation, Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Devel‐
50 oper's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M, 3-180 CPUID
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53 Intel Corporation, Intel Processor Identification and the CPUID
54 Instruction, Application note 485.
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57 This page is part of release 5.07 of the Linux man-pages project. A
58 description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
59 latest version of this page, can be found at
60 https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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