From: Madhukar Mythri <madhukar.mythri@wipro.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to read BIOS information
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 20:34:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445F5DF1.3020606@wipro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147099994.2888.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:44 +0530, Madhukar Mythri wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>> Im new to this group.
>>I want to get some information from BIOS. i.e i want to know whether
>>Hyperthreading is Enabled/Disabled(as per BIOS settings) from an user
>>applications program.
>>
>>
>
>there is no standard way to do this. You can use /proc/cpuinfo to see if
>the kernel found ht'd processors. But that's the best you can do.
>(well you could grovel through the acpi tables just like the kernel
>does, but you really don't want to do that from userspace)
>
>
>
>
"proc/cpuinfo" says only HT support is their or not but, it will not say
whether HT is Enalbled/Disabled..
How to read ACPI tables ? Can you give little info on this...
even from Driver program, if its possible please tell me...
--
Thanks & Regards
Madhukar Mythri
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore.
Off: +91 80 30294361.
M: +91 9886442416.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 14:14 How to read BIOS information Madhukar Mythri
2006-05-08 14:36 ` Richard Mittendorfer
2006-05-08 14:54 ` Madhukar Mythri
2006-05-08 14:57 ` Richard Mittendorfer
2006-05-08 14:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:04 ` Madhukar Mythri [this message]
2006-05-08 15:07 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-08 15:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:28 ` Madhukar Mythri
2006-05-08 15:27 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-09 5:23 ` Madhukar Mythri
2006-05-09 5:37 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-09 9:57 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-09 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-09 12:29 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-09 12:51 ` Richard Mittendorfer
2006-05-09 13:18 ` Madhukar Mythri
2006-05-09 14:44 ` Roger Heflin
2006-05-08 15:15 ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-05-08 15:43 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-10 8:32 ` Dan Carpenter
2006-05-12 20:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:16 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
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