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enhancement
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
cpuinfo currently prints errors like this:
operating system is not supported in cpuinfo
Failed to initialize cpuinfo!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating where cpuinfo detects unsupported operating systems and where initialization produces these errors. Trace the platform-specific CPU information paths and FreeBSD build support; done means cpuinfo initializes on FreeBSD and no longer reports that the operating system is unsupported.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100