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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386
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On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:20 am, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:56:59AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:59:02PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > D> Why is this not clear?
> > D>
> > D>     CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2392.92-MHz
> > K8-class CPU)
>
> ...
>
> > D> > When maintaining hundreds of systems in server
> > D> > room, people usually forget what lives inside the computer
> > cases. And D> > when one needs to tell what is the motherboard
> > and how many sockets D> > and fans it has, he should be capable
> > to do this without opening D> > the case.
> > D>
> > D> The above dmesg doesn't tell this to you?
> >
> > Only after you have explained it. If I am a new FreeBSD user, I
> > won't understand that I have two sockets with two dual core CPUs.
>
> You will understand you have dual-core CPU's - I don't see how you
> could misunderstand:
>     Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2392.92-MHz K8-class
> CPU)
>
> What is missing is the information of how many sockets you have in
> the machine.  Jkim's patch doesn't fix that.

That's not I wanted to 'fix.'  I wanted to give more information.  
That's all.

OTOH, you can get the number of existing sockets and populated sockets 
via SMBIOS.  I have done that before and it is quite easy to 
implement in src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/smbios.c.

Jung-uk Kim