[Bug 11908] CPUZ shows no informations

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11908

--- Comment #48 from Artem S. Tashkinov <aros at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to mirh from comment #47)
> (In reply to Artem S. Tashkinov from comment #42)
> > The Linux kernel has no APIs for exporting low-level CPU/GPU information and
> > Wine developers won't add it either because Windows utilities use their own
> > drivers, so these APIs will be worthless for Wine applications.
> 
> But do we know whether that's even the case?
> 
> Because if it is about hooking some magic in hardware drivers, that's all
> well-said and legit. 
> 
> If instead it was "just" about reading some MSR or the memory directly
> (which is how I believe AGESA is found), again I don't know why sudo wine
> cpuz.exe should not be something supported.

Wine does and will not support Windows kernel drivers. Period. CPU-Z shows
nearly nothing under Windows if it fails to load its kernel driver. Ask CPU-Z
developers to fix this first.

This bug report can be safely closed.

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