Vince> well, I am an author of one of those "user-space tools" that
Vince> reads /proc/cpuinfo.
Vince> <PLUG>http://www.glue.umd.edu/~weave/vmwprod/linux_logo</PLUG>
No offence, but I must say that falls into the "my xxx is bigger than
your xxx" category of applications I mentioned in an earlier posting.
Vince> WHat would be nice would be a standard, something like this
Vince> number_of_cpus: 1
Vince> cpu_type: K6-2
Vince> cpu_manufacturer: AMD
Vince> cpu_speed: 350Mhz
Vince> bogomips: 680.2
Now you are being x86is again, for some architectures it is actually
very important to know the FPU type. On the m68k where the 68040 &
68060 implement a subset of the FPU instructions using kernel
emulation and one gets better performance by using code optimized for
the floating point instructions these CPUs provide natively.
Jes
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