Re: [PATCH] wineboot: detect correct processor name and vendorID, use Intel Pentium 4 as fallback

[Eric Pouech]

Le 20/10/2012 12:42, Patrick Rudolph a écrit :
> This patch need lots of testing, since I can only test it on linux 
> using an Intel CPU.
> Please tests on other OS and systems, too. 
> please use the ntdll or kernel32 relevant API so that you don't have to 
> copy the same code
> A+

[PATCH] wineboot: detect correct processor name and vendorID, use Intel Pentium 4 as fallback

[Patrick Rudolph]

Am 2012-10-20 14:54, schrieb Eric Pouech:
> Le 20/10/2012 12:42, Patrick Rudolph a écrit :
> > This patch need lots of testing, since I can only test it on linux 
> > using an Intel CPU.
> > Please tests on other OS and systems, too. please use the ntdll or 
> > kernel32 relevant API so that you don't have to copy the same code
> > A+
> > The code was copied from ntdll and modified in order to retrieve 
> > processorname and vendorID. There's no similiár functionality in wine.

[PATCH] wineboot: detect correct processor name and vendorID, use Intel Pentium 4 as fallback

[Hans Leidekker]

On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 16:04 +0200, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> Am 2012-10-20 14:54, schrieb Eric Pouech:
> > Le 20/10/2012 12:42, Patrick Rudolph a écrit :
> > > This patch need lots of testing, since I can only test it on linux 
> > > using an Intel CPU.
> > > Please tests on other OS and systems, too. please use the ntdll or 
> > > kernel32 relevant API so that you don't have to copy the same code
> > > A+
> > > The code was copied from ntdll and modified in order to retrieve 
> > > processorname and vendorID. There's no similiár functionality in wine.

There is such functionality in WBEM (formerly known as WMI). I think
you're looking for Win32_Processor.Name and Win32_Processor.Manufacturer.

[PATCH] wineboot: detect correct processor name and vendorID, use Intel Pentium 4 as fallback

[Patrick Rudolph]

Am 2012-10-20 16:52, schrieb Hans Leidekker:
> On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 16:04 +0200, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> > Am 2012-10-20 14:54, schrieb Eric Pouech:
> > > Le 20/10/2012 12:42, Patrick Rudolph a écrit :
> > > > This patch need lots of testing, since I can only test it on 
> > > > linux
> > > > using an Intel CPU.
> > > > Please tests on other OS and systems, too. please use the ntdll 
> > > > or
> > > > kernel32 relevant API so that you don't have to copy the same 
> > > > code
> > > > A+
> > > > The code was copied from ntdll and modified in order to retrieve
> > > > processorname and vendorID. There's no similiár functionality in 
> > > > wine.
>
> There is such functionality in WBEM (formerly known as WMI). I think
> you're looking for Win32_Processor.Name and 
> Win32_Processor.Manufacturer.
> It looks like wbem  Win32_Processor.Name / Win32_Processor.Manufacturer 
> are only available on i386 compatible systems. What about arm ? Is it 
> possible to access both values from wineboot ? I'm not very familar with 
> WBEM. Another possible solution would be to try harder to get the 
> correct value in wineboot (maybe using the code from wbem) and let wbem 
> read the value from the registry. This way there would be no code 
> duplication.

[PATCH] wineboot: detect correct processor name and vendorID, use Intel Pentium 4 as fallback

[Hans Leidekker]

On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 18:18 +0200, Patrick Rudolph wrote:
> > > The code was copied from ntdll and modified in order to retrieve
> > > processorname and vendorID. There's no similiár functionality in 
> > > wine.
> >
> > There is such functionality in WBEM (formerly known as WMI). I think
> > you're looking for Win32_Processor.Name and 
> > Win32_Processor.Manufacturer.
> > It looks like wbem  Win32_Processor.Name / Win32_Processor.Manufacturer 
> > are only available on i386 compatible systems. What about arm ? Is it

Support for ARM can be added, but I wouldn't worry about that until we
find an app that needs it.