From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:31:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050420203109.GB4551@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050419132417.GS17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:24:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> If you change it now, how many tools would break?
>
> Maybe if you can list what statistics you think should be common to all
> systems, that could be presented in another file that is always the same
> format on each architecture.
>
> Certainly looking at arm and i386, other than the bogomips field there
> is nothing in common between their cpuinfo contents. THey don't even
> capitalize bogomips the same either.
>
> I doubt this is really doable. If all you want is the number of CPUs
> then something like sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should do.
Which in glibc is implemented by counting the number of processor: records
in /proc/cpuinfo, so simply Nico's parser seems to be insufficient.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-19 12:15 /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent! Nico Schottelius
2005-04-19 13:24 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-19 19:17 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-19 20:00 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-04-19 20:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-19 20:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-19 20:42 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-19 20:54 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-04-19 21:12 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-04-20 20:31 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-05-07 3:37 ` Ricky Beam
2005-05-07 4:01 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-05-07 7:55 ` Ricky Beam
2005-05-07 17:51 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-05-07 18:05 ` Ricky Beam
2005-05-07 18:46 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-05-07 4:14 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-07 7:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-07 16:53 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-07 17:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-07 17:20 ` Dave Jones
2005-05-07 17:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-08 1:25 ` Jim Nance
2005-05-08 16:11 ` John Kacur
2005-05-09 18:14 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-09 20:09 ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-09 20:26 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-09 21:25 ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-05-10 16:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-10 16:34 ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-10 2:23 ` Jim Nance
2005-05-10 4:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-10 7:13 ` Paul Jackson
2005-05-10 16:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-07 17:54 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-05-07 18:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-09 18:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-10 7:21 ` Paul Jackson
2005-05-10 14:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-10 16:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-09 18:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-09 19:58 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-10 16:49 ` Bill Davidsen
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2005-05-07 23:33 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
2005-05-08 13:24 ` Andi Kleen
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