Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261662AbVDSUmQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:42:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261663AbVDSUmQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:42:16 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:40909 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261662AbVDSUmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:42:13 -0400 Subject: Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent! From: Lee Revell To: Nico Schottelius Cc: Lennart Sorensen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050419200011.GB16594@schottelius.org> References: <20050419121530.GB23282@schottelius.org> <20050419132417.GS17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <1113938220.20178.0.camel@mindpipe> <20050419200011.GB16594@schottelius.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:42:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1113943332.21038.6.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 22:00 +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Can you tell me which ones? > Multimedia apps like JACK and mplayer that use the TSC for high res timing need to know the CPU speed, and /proc/cpuinfo is the fast way to get it. Why don't you create sysfs entries instead? It would be better to have all the cpuinfo contents as one value per file anyway (faster application startup). Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/