Re: How to use cpuid?
Re: How to use cpuid?
- Subject: Re: How to use cpuid?
- From: Shantonu Sen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:46:44 -0700
No, they really aren't. For one thing, the inline assembly assumes you have access to ëx as a free register, which isn't the case for userspace code.
What are you really trying to do? I'd recommend "sysctl machdep.cpu" (or the equivalent sysctlbyname(3)) to get most feature information.
Shantonu Sen
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On Apr 23, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Duane Murphy wrote:
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> While I usually agree with that, the do_cpuid and cpuid functions are
> in-line and don't require linking. That's why I asked.
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> These functions should be legit from either userland or from the kernel.
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> On Apr 23, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Brian Bergstrand wrote:
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>> You don't. The symbols in the Kernel framework are only exported by
>> the Kernel. They are not exported by any userland libraries. There
>> are of course symbol names shared by kernel and userland, but that
>> is by name only.
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>> On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Duane Murphy wrote:
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>>> I'd like to use the do_cpuid() function in i386/cpuid.h of the Kernel
>>> framework in a user land application as well as in a kext.
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>>> The kext I can get compiling, but getting the userland include file
>>> working isn't playing nice. I added the Kernel framework to the Xcode
>>> project, but that doesn't really help because the internal header
>>> files don't use the Kernel prefix.
>>>
>>> How do I go about using do_cpuid() from a user land application?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> ...Duane
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