Re: procfs problems

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:04:37 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > > We could have a standard part /proc/cpuinfo part for those
> > > applications that care about this and a architecture-specific part.
> > User continues to scratch head and can't figure out why different
> > architectures display the same type of information in completely different
> > formats...
> Because some cpus have information that just does not make sense to
> have on other cpus. Look at the SPARC displays, parts of the
> information are related to the MMU for the CPU which does not make any
> sense to display on an Alpha or an Intel.

Oooook.....

Alpha:
cpu : Alpha
cpu model : LCA4
cpu variation : -4294967301
cpu revision : 0
cpu serial number : Linux_is_Great!

Sparc:
cpu : Fujitsu MB86900/1A or LSI L64831 SparcKIT-40

x86:
cpu : 586
model : Pentium 75+
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 4

Tell me why this can't be standardized.

-Dan