libcpuid/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Testing

After any change to the detection routines or match tables, it's always a good idea to run make test. If some test fails, and you're confident that the test is wrong and needs fixing, run make fix-tests.

You can also add a new test (which is basically a file containing the raw CPUID data and the expected decoded items) by using tests/create_test.py. The workflow there is as follows:

1. Run cpuid_tool with no arguments. It will tell you that it has written a pair of files, raw.txt and report.txt. Ensure that report.txt contains meaningful data.
2. Run ./tests/create_test.py raw.txt report.txt > my-cpu.test
3. Use a proper descriptive name for the test, like the CPU brand name in kebab-case (look into tests/amd and tests/intel to get an idea), and copy your test file to an appropriate place within the tests directory hierarchy.

AIDA64 CPUID dumps (mostly found on InstLatx64) are also supported. To create a new test from InstLatx64, you can use the create_test_from_instlatx64.sh script.

For non-developers, who still want to contribute tests for the project, use this page to report misdetections or new CPUs that libcpuid doesn't handle well yet.