> That seems like a good reason for family and model to be > numbers straight from the hardware. Applications can key > off the numbers. Then the text "model name" string could > change without breaking applications. > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 4 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz > stepping : 1 Using PAL_BRAND_INFO on Montecito I end up with this: vendor : GenuineIntel arch : IA-64 family : 32 model : 0 model name : Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 Processor 1.6GHz with 24M L3 Cache for 533MHz Platforms Which is stylistically pretty similar (though somewhat more verbose ... PAL_BRAND_INFO allows for up to 127 characters + NUL so it could get even chattier, but at least there is an upper bound). -Tony - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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