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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:20:43 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c
Message-ID:  <20051018152043.GC84920@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051018065659.GD59364@cell.sick.ru>
References:  <200510160858.j9G8wR9v045670@repoman.freebsd.org> <200510171200.49522.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20051017172828.GB97278@dragon.NUXI.org> <200510171417.38095.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20051017183139.GA97488@dragon.NUXI.org> <1129576130.1152.30.camel@leguin> <20051017192018.GD97488@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051017213635.GC59364@cell.sick.ru> <20051018035902.GH53525@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051018065659.GD59364@cell.sick.ru>

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:56:59AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:59:02PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> D> Why is this not clear?
> D> 
> D>     CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2392.92-MHz K8-class CPU)
...
> D> > When maintaining hundreds of systems in server
> D> > room, people usually forget what lives inside the computer cases. And
> D> > when one needs to tell what is the motherboard and how many sockets
> D> > and fans it has, he should be capable to do this without opening
> D> > the case.
> D> 
> D> The above dmesg doesn't tell this to you?
> 
> Only after you have explained it. If I am a new FreeBSD user, I won't
> understand that I have two sockets with two dual core CPUs.

You will understand you have dual-core CPU's - I don't see how you could
misunderstand:
    Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 (2392.92-MHz K8-class CPU)

What is missing is the information of how many sockets you have in the
machine.  Jkim's patch doesn't fix that.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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