Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:31:09 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:24:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> If you change it now, how many tools would break?
> 
> Maybe if you can list what statistics you think should be common to all
> systems, that could be presented in another file that is always the same
> format on each architecture.
> 
> Certainly looking at arm and i386, other than the bogomips field there
> is nothing in common between their cpuinfo contents.  THey don't even
> capitalize bogomips the same either.
> 
> I doubt this is really doable.  If all you want is the number of CPUs
> then something like sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should do.

Which in glibc is implemented by counting the number of processor: records
in /proc/cpuinfo, so simply Nico's parser seems to be insufficient.

  Ralf
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