Well, that's half of it. The other half of your response is that if we don't do this test that does nothing, we also shouldn't test anything? But no one is proposing removing CPUID feature checks for features you're actually using.
It doesn't even tell you much about another stepping from the same chip (and vendors will sometimes release revisions without updating the stepping since OEMs complain when you officially change the stepping).
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Ok, so now you've tested maybe 10 chips from 10 different models of Intel chips and none fail in this way, well that's the expected outcome, what does that tell you about another model from Intel? Same thing it tells you about a Transmeta chip you didn't test.
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Some a priori knowledge you have is that Intel has * high complexity in their chips compared to every non-white listed vendor * cut back on verification effort in the past decade So even after all that testing, you should still expect a greater chance of funny failures on Intel.
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