Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 1998 23:39:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: REQUEST for /proc/cpuinfo copies & a baby bugbear :o( |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> I'd be happy if you could email me (privately) with a copy of your > /proc/cpuinfo for my programming pleasure? Thanks!
OK, I have lots of lovely /proc/cpuinfos to test with now, and I am bloody grateful that most of you found the time to do this. Thanks once again, initial results are quite promising.
But now, I have noticed that the /proc/cpuinfo varies between different architectures (especially Amigas/Sparcs and Alphas)
Could we *try* and thrash something out so that all architectures have a similar format and uses same field names that would make it a heck of a whole easier? We need to make this uniform across all the architectures so that a program that reads the /proc/cpuinfo will happily parse the file without having to do some special processing for each different architecture?
The important items for me personally is that some fields have different names, (i.e. bogomips, BogoMips, BogoMIPS), or that some have the ':' next to the field, or with a space before the ':'
For example (from an Amiga 68040) CPU: 68040 MMU: 68040 FPU: 68040 Clocking: 24.8MHz BogoMips: 16.58 Calibration: 8294400 loops
And (from a BeBox PPC) cpu : PowerPC 603 rev 3.2 model : BeBox bogomips : 43.72 hid0 : 0x0090d000 context switches : 7654713 instruction page faults : 7264014 data page faults : 8699956 cache flushes : 8338032 hardware interrupts : 132916656 TLBIA : 7654713 TLBIE : 30530940 instruction TLB misses : 360295061 data load TLB misses : 1440098578 data store TLB misses : 161411468
And.. (from an Alpha EV54) cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 0 cpu revision : 0 cpu serial number : Linux_is_Great! system type : EB164 system variation : SX164 system revision : 0 system serial number : MILO-0000 cycle frequency [Hz] : 0 timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00 page size [bytes] : 8192 phys. address bits : 40 max. addr. space # : 127 BogoMIPS : 528.48 kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) user unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
You can see the differences. This needs to be standardised. Opinions or thoughts please.
Cheers, Alex -- /\_/\ Legalise cannabis now! ( o.o ) Grow some cannabis today! > ^ < Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all.
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