Re: Getting processor description from sysctl
Re: Getting processor description from sysctl
- Subject: Re: Getting processor description from sysctl
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 21:23:16 -0700
On 08-05-14, at 20:28, Mike wrote:
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
Maybe:
system_profiler -xml SPHardwareDataType
Philip Aker
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