Re: [RESEND][RFC] lscpu - CPU architecture information helper

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Hi,

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 04:59, Cai Qian <qcai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
>
> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC] lscpu - CPU architecture information helper
> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:02:47 +0100
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> >   /* Only i686, X86_64 and IA64 are supported at the moment. */
>> >   if (strcmp (arch, "x86_64") && strcmp (arch, "i686")
>> >       && strcmp (arch, "ia64"))
>> >     errx (1, "error - %s is not supported.", arch);
>>
>> Maybe you could relax this a bit: /proc/cpuinfo is not arch-agnostic
>> indeed, but /sys/etc is, and that still provides a good amount of useful
>> information.
>>
>
> I have tried on ppc64 and s390(x) machines, but it does not provide me
> any really useful information from sysfs. There is no topology and cache
> available there (2.6.18 Kernel). I don't have access to other
> architecutes. If there is an evidence of sysfs working consistently on
> other arches, I'd be happy to add them in.
I think you should go the generic way, try to get as much information
as possible, and if you have to few just bail out.

Bert
>
> CaiQian
>
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