From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 05:24:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 05:24:37 -0400 Received: from mail.muc.eurocyber.net ([195.143.108.5]:2757 "EHLO mail.muc.eurocyber.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 05:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3B0B81C6.14770A10@TeraPort.de> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:24:22 +0200 From: "Martin.Knoblauch" Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-ac12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Patch] Output of L1,L2 and L3 cache sizes to /proc/cpuinfo In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D205068CA1E0CAE4E50CE275" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D205068CA1E0CAE4E50CE275 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dave Jones wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote: > > > Yes. Recently I tried to transform whole cpuid code to a userspace > > utility. Not easy, not clean... but it worked. > > See http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/x86info > or ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/davej/x86info/ > thanks for the pointer. Definitely gives some very interesting information about ones x86 CPU. At least something to work on. The output for different CPU types is a bit incoherent, making it difficult to parse. That why I [still] think (yes I'm stubborn :-) that having the cache sizes in /proc/cpuinfo in one format is a good idea. The info is there, it is just the output. With the userland tool, you always may have discrepancies between the kernels view and the tools view. But I agree, it does not *have* to go into the kernel. Cheers MArtin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 --------------D205068CA1E0CAE4E50CE275 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="Martin.Knoblauch.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Martin.Knoblauch Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Martin.Knoblauch.vcf" begin:vcard n:Knoblauch;Martin tel;cell:+49-170-4904759 tel;fax:+49-89-510857-111 tel;work:+49-89-510857-309 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.teraport.de org:TeraPort GmbH;C+ITS adr:;;Garmischer Straße 4;München;Bayern;D-80339;Germany version:2.1 email;internet:Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de title:Senior System Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;-7008 fn:Martin Knoblauch end:vcard --------------D205068CA1E0CAE4E50CE275--