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. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
