Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 21 May 2001 21:59:27 -0500 | From | Steven Walter <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:16:18AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <3B090C81.53F163C3@TeraPort.de> > By author: "Martin.Knoblauch" <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Hi, > > > > while trying to enhance a small hardware inventory script, I found that > > cpuinfo is missing the details of L1, L2 and L3 size, although they may > > be available at boot time. One could of cource grep them from "dmesg" > > output, but that may scroll away on long lived systems. > > > > Any particular reason this needs to be done in the kernel, as opposed > to having your script read /dev/cpu/*/cpuid?
Wouldn't that be the same reason we have /anything/ in cpuinfo? -- -Steven In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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