State of kdefx

[Matthew Woehlke]

Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le lundi 30 juillet 2007, Matthew Woehlke a écrit :
>> Well it's possibly ugly and not a patch, but see kdefx/kcpuinfo.cpp :-).
> 
> *looks* Uuurgh!

heh, I guess now you know why we don't like kdefx ;-). But see below...

> Well, seeing it's very low level and the amount of code, it'd be best to port 
> this as a HAL probing addon... Shouldn't be that difficult. And then it's 
> trivial to expose via solid. 

Ok. But I am increasingly lost how to go about that, my ability to do 
something unaided is going down, down... :-)

> Advantages of doing it this way is that the 
> probing of the processor would be done only once in the system, not each time 
> an application ask for the information.

I was going to complain that 'CPUID' is much cheaper than a function 
call. Then I looked at kcpuinfo.cpp :-).

Actually to do this well is even worse than the current kdefx code, 
because you have to (at least, you would be nice to ;-) ) support MS and 
Solaris compilers also (and maybe others?), but I'd still trust that 
over /proc/cpuinfo (which is brittle on Linux and non-existant on other 
OS's, at least on Windows). I can (and would be happy to) help with that 
much at least.

-- 
Matthew
"...anyway, that's my 0.02 toasters"
(with apologies to Niel)