[haiku-development] Re: Fixing get_cpu_model_string(), Ticket 3541

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:20:30 +0200 CEST

Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler - 2009-06-20 17:44 :
> > While I welcome that change in general (as it makes the whole thing
> > a
> > lot easier), why removing the "Extreme" in the first place?
> Mainly cosmetic reasons for display in Pulse, I wanted to achieve a
> somewhat common maximum length. Leaving the "Extreme" in is no
> problem and
> a change of 5 seconds. But personally I'd rather preserve the CPU
> identifier (X9650 etc.) than the Extreme moniker. Of course this
> could be
> solved any which way, if this change would be approved. As long as my
> own
> Core2 gets parsed properly I don't care at all. :)

I think the API could be able to provide different level of details,
depending on what you need; Pulse would want as less as possible,
AboutSystem a detailed (clean) one.

Bye,
   Axel.


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