Hallo, Karel, Du meintest am 07.11.13: >> I want to detect the existence of an SMP CPU (multi core CPU). I've >> tried the contents of "/proc/cpuinfo" and the output of "lscpu". [...] >> Is there any way to detect a multi core CPU under a kernel which is >> compiled with "SMP=n"? > If you don't want to rely on kernel information than you probably > have to use CPUID and some assembler magic to get CPU topology > http://wiki.osdev.org/Detecting_CPU_Topology_(80x86) > or maybe you can use CPU flags from /proc/cpuinfo (I guess the flags > does not depend on SMP=y/n. > It's probably better to ask at lkml :-) Thank you - i'm still (re-)searching. Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html