Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 00:47:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Tomas Telensky <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo |
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On 21 May 2001, 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
It is already done in kernel, because it's displaying :) So, once evaluated, why not to give it to /proc/cpuinfo. I think it makes sense and gives it things in order.
Tomas
> to having your script read /dev/cpu/*/cpuid?
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