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

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@aivazian.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 17:03:25 +0000 (GMT)


But Riley, there is (and always was) uname(2) system call which
contains information about architecture in a portable way.
Why add something somewhere if it is already present elsewhere?

Regards,
Tigran

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

>
> To be honest, we do need ONE standardised entry in /proc/cpuinfo which
> is the one that states what architecture it's referring to. Given
> that, the rest of it is irrelevant since any code checking it should
> first check the architecture returned, and ignore the rest if it
> doesnae understand that much...

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