Bug 1568562

Summary: deprecate the cpuid command
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: David Arcari <darcari>
Component: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-7-en-USAssignee: Lenka Špačková <lkuprova>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact:
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Marie Hornickova <mdolezel>
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Version: 7.6CC: bhu, darcari, emcnabb, jhladky, jshortt, prarit, rhel-docs
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Fixed In Version: kernel-3.10.0-871.el7 Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
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"cpuid" has been deprecated The "cpuid" command has been deprecated. A future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will no longer support using "cpuid" to dump the information about CPUID instruction for each CPU. To obtain similar information, use the "lscpu" command instead.
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Description David Arcari 2018-04-17 18:49:36 UTC 
Description of problem:

It appears that the maintainer for cpuid has abandoned support for the command. The last update was February 2017.

cpuid shipped in RHEL6.9, as well as RHEL-7.3, 7.4 and 7.5 and was planned for RHEL8.  However, given the lack of upstream support, it is important to inform our customers that the command will not be available in future releases.
Comment 2 David Arcari 2018-04-18 18:28:51 UTC 
Moving to ON_QA.  This is a documentation only effort.