Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:53:27 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Semyonov" <wilfre@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Detecting CPU type without dmesg Message-ID: <44212CA7.7020206@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <44212B5F.9010305@yokohama.riken.jp> References: <44212B5F.9010305@yokohama.riken.jp>
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Nathan Butcher wrote: > Here's a curly question:- How can you detect the CPU type (make, model, > and rated speed) on a running FreeBSD server without using dmesg? > > I can't shut this machine off to check BIOS messages, and neither can I > check dmesg (it seems that a pile of network dmesg logging has rotated > the kernel initialization log part off into the sunset). > > Is there a way to check CPU processor make and model type at all now? > I'm starting to wish that FreeBSD would save the kernel initialization > log in a place where it couldn't get lost (sort of like /proc in Linux > but without the fanciness that entails)... or perhaps there is such a > Valhalla in FreeBSD and I can't see it for the forest? You may try: # less /var/run/dmesg.boot The boot-stage dmesg is always saved there. Also, try to use linprocfs(5) and mount_linprocfs(8). The linux-style hardware description is there.
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