Re: [OT] /proc/cpuinfo output from some arch

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!


> >> /proc/cpuinfo was *definitely* meant to be parsed by programs.
> >> Unfortunately, lots of architectures seems to have completely missed
> >> that fact.
> >
> > Sigh, its a shame such things aren't documented somewhere in the
> > kernel tarball.
> 
> Ah, but you're supposed to remember the history!
> The colons were added to make parsing easier.
> I think that was done after somebody added spaces
> on the left, and lots of app developers screamed
> that the format had become hopeless.
> 
> Right now I'm looking to get the temperature,
> clock speed, and voltage. I get the first two
> on PowerPC hardware, but it's not obvious what
> mess an SMP system would spit out.


I thought that cpuinfo was ment to be non-chaning after boot? 

Perhaps we want /proc/cpu/0/temperature containing single int?

								Pavel
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