Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows?
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:25:32 -0800
On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note also that the CPUID instruction first showed up on the 486; Wireshark might not run very well on a 386 box, but we should at least arrange not to crash with an illegal instruction fault.

And here's Intel's documentation on how to do it:

	http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/application-notes/processor-identification-cpuid-instruction-note.pdf