Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo | Date | 21 May 2001 08:16:18 -0700 |
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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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