Re: Getting processor description from sysctl
Re: Getting processor description from sysctl
- Subject: Re: Getting processor description from sysctl
- From: Mike <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:28:43 -0700
Terry Lambert wrote:
On May 14, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Mike wrote:
Is there a way to get the description of the processor(s) using
sysctl. I am interested in the specific processor name, not the family
name. For example "Northwood", not "i386" or "x86".
No.
We care about the family and the capability bits, not the Intel
marketing name for it. The first lets us grade binaries, and th second
lets us write software that avoids attempting to use capabilities not
present on a specific CPU.
-- Terry
I am not attempting to use this info to determine capabilities of the
specific CPU. I need to write a system-profiler like feature and I need
the name of the processor, not just the family.
System Profiler provides the processor name, so there must be a way to
get it. For example on the MacBook it reports:
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
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