Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:11:46 +0100 From: lars <lars@storage.mine.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detecting CPU type without dmesg Message-ID: <20060322111146.GB13337@storage.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <44212B5F.9010305@yokohama.riken.jp> References: <44212B5F.9010305@yokohama.riken.jp>
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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. hth lars.
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