Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:01:08 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: lars <lars@storage.mine.nu>, "Nathan Butcher" <xqufa@yokohama.riken.jp> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detecting CPU type without dmesg Message-ID: <cb5206420603220501t615bc4f9hd371f65781958318@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060322111146.GB13337@storage.mine.nu> References: <44212B5F.9010305@yokohama.riken.jp> <20060322111146.GB13337@storage.mine.nu>
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On 3/22/06, lars <lars@storage.mine.nu> wrote: > Nathan Butcher <xqufa@yokohama.riken.jp> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Here's a curly question:- How can you detect the CPU type (make, model, > > and rated speed) on a running FreeBSD server without using dmesg? > > > > I can't shut this machine off to check BIOS messages, and neither can I > > check dmesg (it seems that a pile of network dmesg logging has rotated > > the kernel initialization log part off into the sunset). > > > > Is there a way to check CPU processor make and model type at all now? > > I'm starting to wish that FreeBSD would save the kernel initialization > > log in a place where it couldn't get lost (sort of like /proc in Linux > > but without the fanciness that entails)... or perhaps there is such a > > Valhalla in FreeBSD and I can't see it for the forest? > > > > Help much appreciated.... > > > > Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > > You could use dmidecode, it's in the Ports. Also sysutils/x86info
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