Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:33:42 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question) Message-ID: <20080103163342.GA50642@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730801030816y1c7b173cp65b60a9aefccd00a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1bd550a00801030514i5007c67t509e05f08c820dd@mail.gmail.com> <flip0s$du0$1@ger.gmane.org> <1bd550a00801030746y29b2c028j9351b99e8684f66c@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef730801030816y1c7b173cp65b60a9aefccd00a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:16:42PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for > > example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported > > extensions, etc... > > But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor > > for the cpu and a few more things. Am I limited to the variables > > showed in sysctl -a? > > Probably. I don't know if there's anything that can give you the > details present in cpuinfo (except using CPUID data directly). Best bet is parsing or using the hw.model sysctl, or if you need lower-level information, there is a port that apparently gets cache size and other data. There are very few things I liked about Linux /proc when I used it, but getting h/w information happened to be one of them... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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