Re: New MHz field in /proc/cpuinfo on ix86 platforms

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 18:38:05 +1300


On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:33:24PM -0500, Alex Buell wrote:

> I've bugged people in the past about it, we really really really do
> need to standardise /proc/cpuinfo for all architectures. Right now
> it's a hotchpotch of different terms. What a mess.

Why?

/proc/cpuinfo is architecture specific -- because some architectures
are quite different to others.

-cw

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