Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:47:59 +0900 From: Nathan Butcher <xqufa@yokohama.riken.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Detecting CPU type without dmesg Message-ID: <44212B5F.9010305@yokohama.riken.jp>
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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
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