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== How to use CPUID ==
=== Checking CPUID availability ===
'''Note:''' Implementing this routine in for example C can lead to issues, because the compiler may change EFLAGS at any time.
▲Note that prior to use the CPUID instruction, you should also make sure the processor supports it by testing the 'ID' bit (0x200000) in eflags (modifiable only when the CPUID instruction is supported. For systems that don't support CPUID, writing a '1' at that place will have no effect).
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=== Basic usage ===
The idea of the CPUID instruction is that you can call it with different values in EAX, and it will return different information about the processor. For example, if we want the Vendor ID String (see below), we should code something like that:
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