Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 May 2006 20:34:17 +0530 | From | Madhukar Mythri <> | Subject | Re: How to read BIOS information |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:44 +0530, Madhukar Mythri wrote: > > >>Hi, >> Im new to this group. >>I want to get some information from BIOS. i.e i want to know whether >>Hyperthreading is Enabled/Disabled(as per BIOS settings) from an user >>applications program. >> >> > >there is no standard way to do this. You can use /proc/cpuinfo to see if >the kernel found ht'd processors. But that's the best you can do. >(well you could grovel through the acpi tables just like the kernel >does, but you really don't want to do that from userspace) > > > > "proc/cpuinfo" says only HT support is their or not but, it will not say whether HT is Enalbled/Disabled.. How to read ACPI tables ? Can you give little info on this... even from Driver program, if its possible please tell me...
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