On Mon, 19.04.10 10:26, Darryl L. Pierce (dpierce@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> In HAL it was possible to extract several pieces of information about
> the processors on a machine, such as product name ("Intel(R) Xeon(R)
> CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz"), number of cores, the core number when peering a
> specific core, throttling capability and the like.
>
> With udev we can only detect the number of cores by counting the
> instances of devices that report a driver of "processor".
>
> Can we get expanded CPU details in udev, such as the processor product
> name, core count and core number (on a specific core), the processor
> flags (as seen in /proc/cpuinfo), cache size, speed, and other details?
HAL just parsed /proc/cpuinfo to get that information, and so should
you probably, too.
The best way to query the number of processers is
sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF).
Lennart
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