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SubjectRe: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo
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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?

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