Intel Contributes New "KCPUID" Utility For Linux To Reliably Report CPU Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Contributes New "KCPUID" Utility For Linux To Reliably Report CPU Features

Intel engineers have been working on a tool called kcpuid for showing the raw CPU features/capabilities of a processor under Linux. This utility will be part of the kernel source tree and is queued up now in tip's x86/misc branch, thereby making it material for Linux 5.13 barring any issues coming up...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Linux-KCPUID-In-Tip

[tildearrow]

Typo........

The kcpuid command-line utility suppots a number of different options for dumping the supported CPU features in a variety of manners.

[Danny3]

Great!
Too bad AMD won't contribute info for their CPUs.
And too bad something like this is not available for GPUs too.

[mlau]

Great!
Too bad AMD won't contribute info for their CPUs.

They don't have to, the detection mechanism is identical, all they have to do is add info to the tool where they differ from intel

[uid313]

Hopefully they can make a GUI frontend for it too like on Windows and Android there is the popular CPU-Z.

[browseria]

Hopefully they can make a GUI frontend for it too like on Windows and Android there is the popular CPU-Z.

https://github.com/X0rg/CPU-X

https://x0rg.github.io/CPU-X/

[Mike Frett]

Yeah, just use CPU-X guys...

[mo0n_sniper]

They have Dark Theme support => Instant buy!