Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: How to read BIOS information | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Tue, 09 May 2006 12:03:44 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2006-05-09 at 10:53 +0530, Madhukar Mythri wrote: > yeah, your are correct. but, the thing is my superiors want, even if > kernel not reconize/use HT, we have to capture it from BIOS... > Thats why i asked as, how to read BIOS information?
You ask the BIOS vendor for the exact board in question.
If you want to ask the processor itself then you can use the model specific registers. These are accessible via /dev/cpu/<cpuid>/msr so you can perform the Intel recommended sequence for checking if the processor has HT enabled.
It might be simpler to look in /proc/cpuinfo if you just need the basic information
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