Hello,

Red Boot (Red Hat's boot monitor) includes a remote protocol extension 
that allows the i386 processor's CPU id to be queried.

The attached, written by Fernando Nasser, makes two things possible:

- auto display of the cpu on a connect vis:

(gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
Remote debugging using /dev/ttyS0
Genuine Intel Pentium(R) III processor [Coppermine]
Processor Family: 6 Model: 8 Stepping: 0

- a command to query the cpuid (info cpu).

The actual CPU information is determined using a small file database 
(installed in ..../share/gdb/i386-cpuid).

Comments on how this was implemented, and what, if anything, could be 
integrated into GDB, welcome.

Andrew