[fpc-devel] AMD & Intel CPUCount

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> > cards and has been told to shut one down for maintenance. Solaris 
> > definitely does this on SPARC, I don't know about its position on x86, 
> > and I don't know about Linux's general position.
> 
> Also somebody needs to check the situation with VMWare, Qemu etc., since 
> they might be uncomfortable virtualising CPUID.
> 
> I've just checked and taskset is supported on zLinux, so I'm fairly 
> confident that the API that underlies it is universal on Linux 2.6+: I 
> really do think that that's what should be used for this job.

Note that in applications this should never be used for more than the
default of a configurable option anyway.

The way new processors deal with this, can change at any time, and not
making this configurable would seriously limit the durability of the
software.