Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:21:24 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'uname -p' & wrong CPU Message-ID: <19991028202124.B3951@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <99Oct29.100659est.40342@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <19991028185647.A1427@ipass.net> <99Oct29.093450est.40349@border.alcanet.com.au> <19991028194946.A2922@ipass.net> <99Oct29.100659est.40342@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy: |On 1999-Oct-29 09:49:46 +1000, Randall Hopper wrote: |>Do you know the correct way is for software to inquire about the CPU |>installed? | |sysctl hw.model | |What more do you want to know about it? From memory there's been some For reporting to or warning the user, everything :-) But to use for making software decisions: 3DNow Y/N, MMX Y/N, SSE Y/N. You touch on that below. Thanks, Randall |discussion about how to report CPU features (probably via an |additional sysctl), but I'm not sure what's happened. There's nothing |in -current yet, so it'll be a while before there's anything in |-stable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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