In kernel mode, you can detect the type of processor. For details on this see the kernel function at following link: http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c#L320 regrds, -Gaurav On 2/21/06, Manav Kataria <manav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > How do we find out the bus width of a processor ? > > Is there anything other than > > uname -a > that might be able to hint this ? > > MK. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/