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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:44:00 +0100
From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: Re: Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:36:40AM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> I'm looking for ways that a userland program can determine the CPU
> features available on an SMP machine -- processor model, stepping
> numbers, supported features, cache organization etc.

"What Silby said" and have a look at the sysutils/x86info port.

I've been thinking we should definitely make the cache organization
info available via sysctl. I am thinking we should do this to make
the UMA_ALIGN_CACHE definition mean something...

I will probably throw diffs Jeff's way soon for this but I'm recovering
=66rom a bit of a nasty cold right now.

BMS