On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 16:26, 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? No, udev will not try to provide such an abstraction. It will only "expand" the information for devices showing up in /sys/class /sys/bus. For CPUs, the kernel interfaces at /sys/devices/system/cpu and /proc should be used directly. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html